Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore (SP)

Mangalore, Sep 17: A final year degree student of Shree Devi College here,named Sheetal Shetty (21), was killed after she was knocked down and crushed by a tipper on reverse gear at Derebail Konchady in the city on Thursday September 16. Sheetal, a native of Kavoor, was moving in a motor bike with her husband, when tragedy struck.

A tipper had been hired to transport mud dug by a backhoe in connection with the road concreting work near Landlinks Township in Konchady. On Thursday evening, the tipper hit Sheetal, when she was heading home with her husband, Bharatbhushan. Her husband stopped his motor bike, after seeing the tipper parked in front of him. The tipper suddenly started on reverse gear, sensing which, Bharat jumped to his left. Sheetal, who fell on the road, was trying to get up, when the tipper crushed her under its wheels.

Sheetal, who had married last year, was returning home after visiting Saibaba Mandir in Lady Hill after the college hours, when she was crushed to death, it is learnt. Bharat, who runs a juice shop in the city, was injured in the incident.