Date:13/09/2006 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2006/09/13/stories/2006091322430300.htm

Karnataka - Bangalore

Two killed in accidents

Staff Reporter

BANGALORE: Two persons, including a four-year-old girl, were killed in separate road accidents in the city since Monday evening.

Police said Sri Lakshmi (4) was killed on the spot after a lorry that was moving in the reverse ran over her at a construction site at BTS Layout in Arakere, off Bannerghatta Road. The incident occurred around 5.30 p.m. on Monday.

Sri Lakshmi was the daughter of a construction labourer from Andhra Pradesh, who was employed at the work site, the police said. The MICO Layout traffic police have registered a case and arrested the lorry driver.

In the other incident, the driver of a call centre vehicle was killed when a lorry rammed his multi-utility vehicle near Yelahanka Circle while he was returning after dropping the call centre employees at their houses in the early hours of Tuesday.