-- Samir Umarye BICHOLIM FEB 3: About 21 people were injured in a mishap between a bus and mining trucks today at Maina Surla in Bicholim taluka.
According to the avialable information the incident occured at about 8.30 am. A truck (GA-08-U-0017) proceeding from Ponda to Sanquelim dashed agaist the rare wheel of another truck (GA-04-T-1240) coming from the opposite direction. After giving dash agaist the truck it dashed against a bus (GA-01-U-2228). The dash was such that the truck turned turtle after giving dash to the oncoming truck and the bus. In this incident the following passengers in the bus were injured Laxmi S Sawant, Sudesh S Sawant, Tulsi C Sawant, Rukmini Aroskar, Shobha S Sawant, Seeta Majik, Vijay Majik, Pradeep Usapkar, Narayan Majik, Pravin Rane all from Parye Sattari; Bindiya Sawant, Leela Otare, Chnadrakant Naik, Geetanjali Gaonkar, Eknath Gaonkar, Anant Suryawanshi, Hemant Suryawanshi from Navelim and Sanquelim; Dyaneshwar Aroskar, Dayanand Aroskar both from Mapusa; Vijay Gaonkar from Mayem, Sidharth Shinde from Usgao Tisk. All the injured were shifted to Sanquelim Primary Health Centre five of them who were seriously injured were refered to GMC Bambolim. After the treatment most of them were discharged except Rukmini Aroskar who suffered grevious injuries and is still admitted to GMC. The Bicholim Hawaldar, Harischnadra Parab and PSI, Ditendra Naik is further investigating the case under the supervision of PI, Harish Madkaikar.