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IISc staff, family killed in accident

Staff Reporter

BANGALORE: A mess attender at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), his wife and 10-year-old daughter were killed after their van collided with a lorry on National Higway 4 in Nelamangala police station limits in Bangalore Rural district on Monday.

The police said that around 6 a.m. the driver of the Bangalore-bound van hit a lorry while trying to overtake it near Bommanahalli forest area.

The dead were identified as Lakshman Nyari (55), his wife, Shantha (50), and their daughter, Yeshaswini (10), all residents of Vidyaranyapura here. While Shantha and Yeshaswini were killed on the spot, Lakshman died of injuries at a hospital, the police said.

The family was returning to Bangalore from their home in Brahmavar in Udupi district, after the Dasara festival, the police said.

The van driver, Venkatesh, was seriously injured and is in an ICU in a private hospital. The Nelamangala police have seized the lorry and arrested the driver.

Pedestrian killed

A man aged around 25 was killed on the spot after he was run over by a lorry on Sarjapur Road on the outskirts of the city on Monday.

The police said that around 6 a.m. a lorry, which was going towards Sarjapur from Iblur, ran over the pedestrian at Kaikondanahalli, off Belandur Gate.

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