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Two teenagers killed in accidents involving buses

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A bus set on fire at Nagawara after a boy dies in accident

MOB FURY: A partially burnt BMTC bus at Nagawara in Bangalore on Wednesday. — Photo: K. Murali Kumar

BANGALORE: A mob set on fire a Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) bus that knocked down a 16-year-old boy on Nagawara Road on Wednesday.

The police said that around 10 a.m., the BMTC bus (route no. 290C) hit Mohammed Tabrez while he was crossing Nagawara Road. As Tabrez lay dead in a pool of blood, residents of the area and passers-by threw stones at the bus and set it on fire.

As the crowd gathered at the accident spot and tried to block traffic, there was tension for some time.

Senior police officials rushed to the spot, pacified the crowd and dispersed it. A fire tender put out the fire.

The traffic police have arrested bus driver Ravi and registered a case.

Meanwhile, the Banaswadi police have registered a case of rioting against those who torched the bus.

Boy knocked down

In another incident, a 15-year-old boy was killed after a BMTC bus hit his scooter in Wilson Garden police station limits on Wednesday morning.

The police gave the name of the dead as Gautham, an SSLC student of BHS High School in Jayanagar and son of Venkoba Rao, a resident of Wilson Garden.

The police said that around 5.45 a.m., Gautham, who had been for tuition, was riding a friend's scooter on 10th Cross, Wilson Garden, when the bus hit him. He was killed on the spot. The Wilson Garden traffic police have seized the bus and registered a case.

Three injured

Three persons were injured in a collision between a lorry and a goods van on 50-foot road at Srinagar on Wednesday. The accident occurred around 8.15 a.m. at a gradient in Nagendra Block. As the lorry overturned, the vehicular movement on the busy road was affected for nearly two hours. The traffic police, who diverted the movement of vehicles, used a crane and got the lorry removed from the middle of the road.

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