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A Village Burnt Overnight: Tears, Loss and Survival in Dhamangaon Blaze

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  Sitting amid the blackened remains of his home, 32-year-old Nikesh Gawali carefully broke open a half-melted plastic box with a screwdriver. His hands shook slightly, not out of fear, but out of hope. “I’m trying to find my daughter Aarti’s gold earrings,” he said quietly, still focused on the box. “She’s just five. I got them made recently after months of labour work.” The plastic box, warped and blackened by heat, was one of the few things left from his two-room house on the outskirts of Dhamangaon village . All around him lay ash, broken tin sheets and charred wooden beams. The walls had cracked under the heat and the front room’s tin roof had caved in completely. What remained was a blackened debris all around - almost nothing to suggest a home once stood there. Nikesh earns his living as an agricultural labourer, like many in the village. Work is uncertain and depends on the season. Those earrings weren’t just jewellery - they were a small dream, a reward for his hard work,...
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Five passangers killed and 18 injured truck and bus collission

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Notorious Amdi by-pass was witness to yet another gory mishap when on Sunday a Truck and a bus of MSRTC collided, leaving five passengers dead and 18 others injured. The incident police said occurred at 7.30 am when the Bus belonging to  Ramtek Depot was on way to Parsheoni and thereafter would have gone to Kondhali.

The impact of the dash was so powerful that the bus was knocked of the road after the Truck ripped through one of its side. The injured are admitted to Indira Gandhi Medical College and Hospital (IGMCH) and many of them are nursing their serious injuries and listed as critical, the police have said.
The 42-seater bus of Ramtek depot (MH-40/9964) was going to Parsheoni from Ramtek and 35 passengers were seated in the ill fated vehicle when the tragedy cut short the journey. The bus driver took a turn for Parsheoni at Amdi by-pass when the truck (UP-70/BT-3626) loaded with chilly rammed into the bus. The truck was coming from Nagpur and was heading towards the Jabalpur while the bus drive took a turn for Parsheoni when the collision occurred, the police concurred after the spot inspection. The bus was dragged for nearly 50 feet by the truck which eye witnesses said was being driven at menancing speed. The bus came to halt after the truck dashed into a gas tanker (NL-01/K-6671) parked by road side. However by that time the truck had lost the speed and hence the impact of crash into tanker did not explode into another big tragedy.
Bus truck collission

Villagers of nearby areas rushed to the spot and extricated injured bus passengers. Staff of Ramtek police station rushed to the spot. The cops had to cut through bus body to reach upto injured in the bus that suffered quite a lot of damage. Superintendent of Police Dr Manoj Kumar Sharma told ‘The Hitavada’ that rescue operation started at 8.30 am and all passengers were rescued at 9.30 am. A crane and two JCB machines were pressed into service to lift the bus and clear the road of the overturned vehicles. Injured passengers were then rushed to IGMCH.
The deceased were identified as bus conductor Kalpana Marotrao Gavgave (22), a resident of Ramtek, Amarsing Raj Supone, a resident of Sinhora village in Jabalpur district, Sindhu Shankar Bajanghate (60), a resident of Kandri- Mansar, Vanita Kailas Awchat (35), a resident of Ramtek, and Rupendra Radheshyam Uikey (35), a resident of Patharai Deolapar. Injured persons are driver, Wahid Habib Waghade (40), a resident of Parsheoni, Dhanpal Umaji Janbandhu (29), Umaji Ganpat Janbandhu (60), Jitu Umaji Janbandhu, residents of Wakodi-Khapa, Punam Bhimrao Yelne (17), a resident of Parsheoni, Sangeeta Milind Tiwari (36), Manorama Prabhakar Dongre (40), residents of Mansar, Hirabai Dilip Karale (38), Renuka Raja Pandhre (30,) Koushalya Shripat Shrawankar (42), residents of Ramtek, Sunil Ekanna Guthalewar (35), a resident of Parsheoni, Chhotu Nirmalprasad Yadav (25), a resident of Jogipur, Allahabad.

Parsheoni police have registered a case against truck driver Mohd Atahar Mohd Habis Khan (30), a resident of Sevayat village of Allahabad district of Uttar Pradesh and bus driver Wahid Habib Waghade (40), a resident of Parsheoni under secs. 279, 337, 338 and 304 (A) of Indian Penal Code read with sec. 184 of Motor Vehicle Act. 


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