Keonjhar (Odisha):

Six people, including four women, died in a tragic accident on Wednesday evening in Odisha’s Keonjhar district. Their car was crushed between two trucks on National Highway 520 in the Champua area.

Police report that the car was traveling behind a truck that suddenly braked. The car rammed into the back of the truck. A second truck following too closely then collided with the car from behind, causing the fatalities. All six occupants of the car, who were all family members, died at the scene.

The bodies have been sent to the hospital for autopsy.

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Dhanbad:

Bollywood actor Pankaj Tripathi’s brother-in-law died in an accident in Dhanbad on Saturday. Rajesh Tiwari and his wife Sabita Tiwari, the sister of Mr Tripathi, were driving from Bihar’s Gopalganj to Kolkata when the accident occurred on the Delhi-Kolkata NH-19 a little after 3 pm.

Tiwari died on the spot while his wife remains critical.

The highway crash was captured on CCTV. The Maruti Swift that Tiwari was driving whizzed past a woman waiting to cross the road and crashed into a divider as he lost control of the car, showed the footage from the site of the accident.

Ms Tiwari was taken to Shahid Nirmal Mahato Medical College in Dhanbad after the accident, and is currently under observation at the hospital. She has suffered a serious head injury, a CT scan has confirmed, according to the doctors.

The relatives of the Tiwaris had said that Mr Tripathi, the Mirzapur star, has been informed.

Nine men were killed after the van they were travelling in was rammed by a speeding truck in Rajasthan’s Jhalawar on Saturday night, police said. 

The group of 10 was returning from a wedding in Madhya Pradesh’s Khilchipur when the accident took place.

While three of the men were killed on the spot, six others died during treatment at the hospital.

After the accident, the driver of the truck fled the scene but was detained later.

Police are questioning him. Further investigation is on.

Gurugram:

A 27-year-old woman succumbed to injuries after she was allegedly hit by an SUV while riding a bicycle in the Sector 53 area here, police said on Tuesday.

An FIR has been registered against the unknown SUV driver who immediately fled the spot in his vehicle, they added.

The dead has been identified as Nasima Khatoon, a native of Assam. She died during treatment at AIIMS, Delhi, the police said. According to a complaint filed by the woman’s husband Aminul Haq, the accident took place around 6.30 pm on Sunday when Khatoon was returning home from work on a bicycle.

While crossing the Golf Course Road, a Mahindra SUV car coming from behind hit her bicycle. The driver immediately fled the spot in his car, the police said citing the complainant.

Khatoon was seriously injured and was taken to a private hospital. When her condition did not improve, she was referred to Delhi’s AIIMS hospital where she died during treatment on Monday night, Haq added in his complaint.

Haq said he and his wife hail from Dhubri in Assam. They were living on rent in the Saraswati Kunj area here for the last seven months and Khatoon worked at a printing press in Sector 54.

Based on the husband’s complaint, an FIR was registered against the unidentified SUV driver under Sections 279 (rash driving), 304-A (death due to negligence) of the Indian Penal Code at Sector 53 Police Station on Monday, the police said.

A senior police officer said that the registration number of the SUV has been identified and efforts are underway to trace the accused. 

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Melbourne:

Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said Monday he would be “happy to reopen” the search for flight MH370 if “compelling” evidence emerged, opening the door to a renewed hunt a decade after the plane disappeared.
“If there is compelling evidence that it needs to be reopened, we will certainly be happy to reopen it,” he said when asked about the matter during a visit to Melbourne.

His comments came as the families marked 10 years since the plane vanished in the Indian Ocean with 239 people aboard.

“I don’t think it’s a technical issue. It’s an issue affecting the lives of people and whatever needs to be done must be done,” he said.

Malaysia Airlines flight 370, a Boeing 777 aircraft, disappeared from radar screens on March 8, 2014, while en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

Despite the largest search in aviation history, the plane has never been found and the operation was suspended in January 2017.

About 500 relatives and their supporters gathered Sunday at a shopping centre near the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur for a “remembrance day”, with many visibly overcome with grief.

Some of the relatives came from China, where almost two-thirds of the passengers of the doomed plane were from.

“The last 10 years have been a nonstop emotional rollercoaster for me,” Grace Nathan, a 36-year-old Malaysian lawyer whose mother, Anne Daisy, 56, was on the flight, told AFP.

Speaking to the crowd, she called on the Malaysian government to conduct a new search.

Transport Minister Anthony Loke told reporters that “as far Malaysia is concerned, it is committed to finding the plane… cost is not the issue”.

He told relatives at the gathering that he would meet with officials from Texas-based marine exploration firm Ocean Infinity, which conducted a previous unsuccessful search, to discuss a new operation.

“We are now awaiting for them to provide suitable dates and I hope to meet them soon,” he said.

An earlier Australia-led search that covered 120,000 square kilometres (46,000 square miles) in the Indian Ocean found hardly any trace of the plane, with only some pieces of debris picked up.

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Buxar:

Coaches can be seen strewn on both sides of the track, a few of these several feet away, in Raghunathpur, a non-descript town in Buxar district of Bihar where the North East Express derailed.

Four AC coaches, all of which have jumped the rails but remained coupled, form a scary serpentine pattern with shattered window panes serving as a telltale sign.

The guard of the Assam-bound train, Vijay Kumar, recalls having fallen unconscious from the impact of the derailment.

“I was busy with my paperwork when I realized that the driver suddenly applied brakes. This was followed by a few jerks, and I fainted. Later, I found myself in the adjoining fields, where villagers were sprinkling drops of water on my face,” said Kumar, who has sustained minor injuries.

With the rescue of passengers complete, the focus is now on restoration.

The entire area has been cordoned off as villagers watch gigantic cranes and machinery used for cutting through metal at work. They feel that, given the scale of devastation, it may be several days before the tracks are again fit for traffic.

Railways, though, insist that it will not take that long.

Mahendra Yadav, a 64-year-old resident of Madhepura district who was traveling in an AC 3-tier coach, recalled amid sobs, “It was an experience I may never forget. Suddenly, all of us started getting tossed off our berths by a force that none of us could fathom.” The elderly person is full of gratitude for local residents who had rushed to the spot and pulled out most of the passengers from the toppled coaches by the time the railway and other administrative officials arrived with assistance.

In an adjoining coach, Mohd Nasir and Abu Zayed, both residents of Kishanganj district, were fast asleep, perhaps enjoying pleasant dreams of a vacation at home, away from the hustle and bustle of Delhi.

As fate would have it, only one of them survived to witness the horror, which may remain a memory etched in his consciousness for some time to come.

“We had boarded the train on Wednesday morning. It was a tiring journey, and after having an early dinner, we went to sleep. The train would have reached Kishanganj early the next morning. Suddenly, I felt a jolt and got thrown off my berth. It took a while before I could understand what had happened,” said Nasir, with shock writ large on his gaunt, bespectacled face.

While Nasir thanked his stars for escaping with minor bruises in the accident, which saw virtually the entire train being thrown off the rails, his eyes turned moist as he recalled rescue personnel taking away the body of Abu Zayed, who is in his 20s, informing him that his friend was dead.

Ishalaur Rehman, a resident of Delhi, recalled how 10-15 people fell on him after a sudden jolt.

“I am lucky to have survived the accident with a minor injury to my hand. But what I saw was unforgettable. I boarded the train at Prayagraj for New Jalpaiguri. I was sitting on my seat, but suddenly, there was a deafening sound, and we were thrown from our seats. I could only hear screams all around,” he said.

“Locals took us to the nearby health center. Now, I am fine,” he added.

Twenty-three coaches of the train, on the way to Kamakhya in Assam from Delhi’s Anand Vihar station, derailed near Raghunathpur on Wednesday night.

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Thiruvananthapuram:

 Five people were killed after a school bus collided with an auto-rickshaw in Kerala’s Kasargod, officials said on Monday.  

The accident occurred in Pallathatukka near Badiydukka in Kasaragod.

As per officials, the school bus was returning after dropping off the students.

State Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan also condoled the deaths in the incident and said that he shares the grief of the family members, the CMO said in a statement.

Further information is awaited.

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A 21-year-old woman in the US had a narrow escape when a sharp chunk of metal blasted through her Jeep windshield and impaled itself only inches away from her face. The woman told police she was driving south near Mile 61 on the Maine Turnpike in Gray at about 10:20 a.m. when a vehicle in front of her ran over and kicked up a piece of metal debris.

Images from the scene shared by Maine State Police show the metal piece sticking out of the red Jeep Wrangler on the driver’s side. Thankfully, the woman was able to pull over to the side of the road, as per the police. 

See the pictures here:

On Tuesday morning State Police responded to a crash near Mile 61 on the Maine Turnpike in Gray. The driver, a 21 year old woman from New Hampshire was traveling SB when a vehicle traveling in the same direction in front of her ran over and kicked up a piece of metal road debris pic.twitter.com/3heM5tKux2

— Maine State Police (@MEStatePolice) September 5, 2023

She suffered only minor injuries and was checked by paramedics on the scene. Troopers safely reunited her with her family upon leaving the crash scene. Owing to the accident, one lane was shut down for approximately 1 hour. 

Internet users who saw the pictures were left terrified and were happy and relieved to know that the woman was safe. 

One user wrote, ”Lucky had a guardian angel.” Another commented, ”Most terrifying and it happens too often.”

A third said, ”Glad she’s ok! She should play the lottery!” A fourth added, ”Never assume that things are just fine for the cars in front of you. Leave room. Remember the old adage of a car’s length per 10 mph of speed. If you don’t have a patient on the table, throttle back. Arrive in one healthy piece.”

Paris:

A pedestrian was killed in Paris early Sunday after being struck by a driver who was fleeing the police after refusing to submit to a traffic stop, police sources said.

“The wanted man was identified and arrested,” an anonymous police source told AFP later on Sunday, without providing details on the circumstances of the arrest.

A police patrol in the suburb of Pantin, just northeast of Paris, attempted to stop a BMW at around 3:30 am (0130 GMT) on Sunday, but the driver sped away and headed toward the capital.

“The fugitive took several streets in the 19th Arrondissement and got away from the police at the exit of a tunnel,” a police source said.

They later abandoned the vehicle on a street in a northeast district of the city, the source said.

Officers were notified that a pedestrian had been struck on a boulevard near the Paris city limits.

Emergency services responded but the victim died at the scene, the police source said, adding that an inquiry was underway.

No identity details were released, though BFM television reported the victim was a man in his 30s.

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