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,...
A 13-year-old student of Marie Poussepin's Academy was crushed to death by a recklessly driven school bus near the school located in the Mhasala area of Koradi police station on Tuesday afternoon.
Just after leaving the school campus, the bus hit two motorcycles coming from the opposite direction and rammed the vehicle into a school van. Students who were boarding the van got trapped under the wheels of the bus. The uncontrolled bus moved on hitting the vehicles and stalled only after hitting an electric pole. The heart-wrenching incident created panic and chaos in the Mhasala area. The parents of the deceased student were crying inconsolably in the hospital after seeing the body of their child, a police official said.
The deceased was identified as Samyak Dinesh Kalambe (13), a resident of Barakholi Indora. He was a student of standard VIII of Marie Poussin Academy, the official said.
The school bus (MH-40/AP-0497) was driven by Ambadas Kavdu Ramteke (70). He drove the bus out of the school campus and took a right turn. After crossing nearly 50 metres of distance, the bus hit two motorcycles coming from opposite directions. The motorcycle riders fell on the road. Later, the bus hit a parked school van in which school students were boarding. Samyak was one of them. He came under the wheels of the bus and got crushed. Two other students were also injured in the accident, police said. People standing nearby ran towards the bus to stop. However, the driver failed to control the bus and hit an electric pole on the right side, police said. The live electric wire fell on another school van. There were many school students standing near the van. They also fled the spot to save their life, the official said.
Profusely bleeding Samyak was taken to the hospital where doctors declared him dead. Koradi police rushed to the spot and arrested the bus driver. He reportedly told the police that the bus moved in first gear when he was applying reverse gear. He panicked after the bus hit the motorycles. An offence under provisions of Indian Penal Code and Motor Vehicle Act was registered by Koradi police.
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