Date:08/10/2006 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2006/10/08/stories/2006100811910400.htm

Karnataka - Bidar

10 die, 13 hurt in two accidents

Staff Correspondent

Bidar: Ten persons died and 13 were injured in two accidents on the Mumbai-Hyderabad National Highway in Humnabad taluk on Saturday.

In an accident that occurred near Meenkera Cross, five persons died and 10 were injured when a jeep carrying passengers rammed a stationary lorry.

Some of the victims were labourers headed for Hyderabad.

The police said Shamsuddin Sukru, 27, Namdeo Ganapati, 35, Vithal, 35 and Javed Gulzar Shah, 21 died on the spot. Khandu Prakash, died in a hospital at Umarga in Maharashtra.

The condition of one of the injured, Babru Prakash, is said to be serious.

The injured were taken to hospitals in Humnabad and Umarga. A case has been registered in the Mannaekhalli police station.

In the second accident, five persons in an autorickshaw died when it collided with a lorry. Two women and a five-year-old child, who were injured in the collision, were taken to a hospital in Gulbarga, the police said. The identities of the victims are yet to be ascertained.

The autorickshaw was carrying passengers from Mannaekhalli to Humnabad, while the lorry was on its way to Hyderabad. A case has been registered in the Humnabad police station.