OLD GOA
A holiday trip of five friends from Raichur-Karnataka ended in tragedy as one of them succumbed to injuries after the car they were travelling in rammed into a railing along the Chimbel-Old Goa bypass road, on Sunday evening.
According to Old Goa police, the five friends had arrived in Goa on Saturday night and were travelling back to Karnataka via the Kadamba bypass road when the mishap occurred.
The police said that on reaching near the Saibaba temple, the driver lost control of the car and rammed into an incomplete railing resulting in injuries to two occupants.
However, Bawasahe Buwaji (23), who was seriously hurt, later succumbed to his injuries. The other injured person is Mehboob Pasha (23).
Hawaldar Dashrath is investigating further.
2 TN tourists pay dearly for underestimating rough sea
MAPUISA: Within a week of the drowning of five Maharashtra tourists off Calangute beach, two tourists from Tamil Nadu drowned in two separate incidents in Baga and Sinquerim.
The deceased, Dinesh Ranganathan (28) from TN drowned in Baga late Saturday evening, while Sasikumar Vasan (33) also from TN drowned early Sunday morning in Sinquerim.
Calangute Police informed that eight tourists from Mangalore and Tamil Nadu had arrived in Baga on a holiday on Saturday. While taking a stroll along the Baga beach at around 6 pm three from the group crossed the Baga creek and climbed the rocks in the middle of the sea water, police said.
“As they were clicking pictures a large wave hit the three tourists and dragged them into the water. While two managed to come out the third person drowned in the subsequent wave which hit him,” PI Jivba Dalvi informed. The deceased was identified as Dinesh Ranganathan (28) of Vellore, Tamil Nadu. In the other incident four tourists had gone to see sunrise early Sunday morning in the rocky area below Fort Aguada at Sinquerim. “Three set on the rocks and the fourth was clicking pictures when all of a sudden a wave hit the rocks. One of them was washed in the sea waters and eventually drowned,” PI said. The deceased has been identified as Sasikumar Vasan (33) of TN.
