Mangalore October 31: A man was killed and four others sustained severe injuries in a head on collusion between a tipper and an auto-rickshaw at Ane in Gurpur on the outskirts of the city on Monday evening.
The deceased has been identified as Babu Shetty (40), a resident of Gadigudd in Pavoor, who was travelling in the ill-fated auto-rickshaw. He was working at a garage in Kolya.
The injured identified as Devadas Poojary (27), a bar bender, Jyothi Prakash Shetty (21), who had recently returned from Chennai, and Yathiraj Rai (30), the rickshaw-driver and Deepak Shetty, have been hospitalized in the city.
The accident occurred when the driver of the speeding tipper failed to notice the oncoming rickshaw while negotiating a curve and rammed against it.
The rickshaw passengers were returning from Kaikamba after attending a wedding function, while the tipper was moving towards Gurpur from Vamanjoor.
The impact of the accident was such that the rickshaw was reduced into a bundle of metals.
People, who were travelling behind the auto-rickshaw on two motorbikes, had to struggle to pull two of the injured passengers out of their vehicle.
A case has been registered at Bajpe police station.
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