Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (SP)

Bengaluru, Aug 21: In an unfortunate incident which happened at Kadugodi within Mahadevapura zone limits here on Sunday August 19, a 14-year-old girl identified as Yuvarani (14) lost her life after a street light pole snapped and fell directly on her.

The girl, who was seated in the pillion of a motor bike driven by her father, Harish, was returning home after attending house warming ceremony of a relative at Shivanapura when bad luck struck. When they were passing through Dinnur Cross at Kadugodi, a street light pole, base of which had got rusted, suddenly fell on the two-wheeler. Yuvarani suffered serious injuries in the incident. She was immediately rushed to Narayana Hospital but without responding to treatments, she breathed her last later. Parents of the girl, in a complaint filed in Kadugudi police station, accused apathy of Bruhut Bangalore Mahanagara Palike authorities as responsible for the teenager's death.

Assistant executive engineer, Gurappa Doddamani, said that the stretch of 16.5 km road from Benniganahalli to Kadugodi police station had been handed over 18 months ago to Bengaluru Metro Rail Corporation Ltd for undertaking metro work and hence a report about the said incident would be sent to that corporation.