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17 die as maxi-cab, bus collide on NH 17 near Udupi

Staff Correspondent

All the victims were travelling by maxi-cab

Udupi: Seventeen persons, including seven children, were killed when the maxi-cab by which they were travelling collided with a private bus at Muloor, on National Highway 17, in Kaup police station limits of Udupi district on Monday. Muloor is about 15 km from here. All the victims were going to attend a marriage.

The private was going to Mangalore while the maxi-cab was coming in the opposite direction from Muloor to Majur, when the accident took place near the Narayana Guru Billava Sangha building at Muloor. The impact of the collision was such that the maxi-cab was reduced to wreckage.

Of the seven children killed in the accident, four were boys and three were girls.

The names of the victims were given as Aminabi (65), driver Mohammad Ali (24), Rashida (35), Khatija (50), Minaj (35), Zubaida (38), Asma (19), Nazia (12), Safan (7), Yusuf (10), Misba (9) and Ashraf (8), and Masira (6) all from Muloor, Khairunisa (35) from Mumbai, Maimuna (45), Razia (45) from Kaup and Suhail (12).

Twenty-two persons, who were injured in the accident, were rushed to the District Government Hospital and the Hi-tech Hospital in Udupi.

The driver of the bus fled from the scene after the accident. The persons in the maxi-cab were going to attend a marriage at Majur. A passenger P.K. Mayyabi from Karkala, who was travelling by the private bus, from Kaup to Padudidri, alleged that the driver was speaking on the mobile while driving. He narrowly avoided hitting an autorickshaw at Katapady village, he alleged.

Heart-rending scenes were witnessed at the District Government Hospital and at the hi-tech hospital in Udupi where the injured were admitted.The volunteers of Jamaat-E-Islami Hind helped the authorities in identifying the dead and also in the rescue work.

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