6 killed in separate accidents

Belgaum, April 3: Six people, including two women and a child, were killed on the spot in two separate road accidents in Savadatti taluk on Monday.

Four persons were killed on the spot and two were injured after a speeding car rammed into a roadside tree near Halki Cross on the Belgaum-Bagalkot road.

Police said the driver of the speeding car, on its way to Belgaum, lost control of the vehicle and rammed it into the tree, killing four people on the spot. Syed Khalid Rafiq Ahmed Peerzade, 35, Syed Bibi Kousar Syed Khalid Peerzade, 28, Syed Bibi Hazmatshah Jahagirdar, 33, and Syed Ahmed Peerzade, 2, all residents of Bijapur are the dead. They were on their way to Belgaum to participate in the last rites of a relative.

Sufiana and Libiana, the two injured children, have been admitted to hospital for treatment.

In another incident, Bhimappa Malennavar, 25, and Fakirappa Tariha, 23, both residents of Bhojbal village in Ramdurg taluk, died on the spot, when the motorcycle in which they were travelling rammed into a bus coming from the opposite side, near Hirur. Savadatti police have registered a case.