Daijiworld Media Network – Kundapur (SP)

Kundapur, Dec 27: In an incident that occurred on Sunday December 26, eight persons were injured, three of them grievously, after a private bus hit a lorry that was parked by the side of national highway 17 at Nironi village near Maravante in the taluk. The bus was moving towards Mangalore from Goa, when the accident occurred.

The conductor and driver of the bus in question, apart from a passenger, sustained serious injuries in the accident, as the front portion of the bus was badly mangled due to the impact of the accident. The locals helped to bring out injured persons, who were stuck in the mangled portion of the bus.

The injured have been identified as Irene Sequeira from Goa, Savita, Pravin, and Krishna from Mangalore, Robert Naguri from Davangere, Sahid from Mumbai, Mobin from Jharkhand, and driver, Pradip. Five of them were admitted into a private hospital in Kundapur, and three with serious injuries were shifted to Manipal Hospital.