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KARUR: Residents along with students staged a road blockade on the Karur-Tiruchi National Highway at Puliyur condemning the killing of an engineering student in a road accident. The student was killed on the spot, while her father sustained injuries, when a sand lorry rammed the two-wheeler they were riding. Students and public went on a rampage damaging buses, lorries and other vehicles stranded in the melee that lasted more than four hours. Cynthia (18), a first-year engineering student of a private college, is the daughter of Mahamuni, president of Balarajapuram village panchayat. As the area was near to the college and had witnessed a spate of accidents allegedly caused by sand lorries, the public and the students flew into rage. The situation spiralled out of control before police reinforcements could be brought in. More than 80 lorries, 10 buses, including nine from TNSTC, one police van, one school bus, windowpanes of a police outpost at Puliyur faced the ire of the public and the students. Then police reinforcements arrived and diverted vehicles bound for Tiruchi through an alternative route. They also brought the public and the students to order but could not force the road block to end as the public demanded the arrival of the District Collector. Collector J.Uma Maheswari and Superintendent of Police K. Mohan, who arrived at the spot held talks with protestors. The protestors demanded an end to sand mining in the river Cauvery. Dr.Uma Maheswari promised that sand lorries would be diverted through Uppidamangalam in a month or so but the public was unwilling to accept her promise. She was then forced to give in writing that sand lorries would not be allowed to pass the stretch during peak hours. All through the road roko, the body of the victim lied there with the protestors demanding justice. The Collector also said that heavy vehicle traffic would not be allowed in the Veerarakkiam-Sunga Gate stretch between 6 am and 10 am and between 3 pm and 6 pm.
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