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Indian cricketer Rishabh Pant hospitalised after car crash
Indian cricketer Rishabh Pant was hospitalized on Friday with non life-threatening injuries sustained in a car crash in northern India.
Pant, 25, was driving the car that overturned and caught fire after hitting a road divider near Roorkee, his hometown in Uttarakhand state, Ravi Bijaria, a state government spokesman said.
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He was alone in the car at the time of the accident, Bijaria said — “he suffered injuries on his forehead and leg."
State police officer Ashok Kumar said Pant lost control of the car and that Pant was pulled out of the vehicle by local villagers.
Pant’s hometown is nearly 190 kilometers (120 miles) north of New Delhi.
Pant has scored 2,271 runs in 33 tests. He has also represented the country in 30 one-day internationals and 66 Twenty20 matches.
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Pant was part of the Indian team that defeated Bangladesh in a test series earlier this month.
He made his T-20 debut as a wicketkeeper-batsman in 2017 and played his first test and one-day international for India in 2018.
1 year ago
Car crash kills 7 in southern Myanmar
Seven people were killed in a road accident Saturday on Pathein-Chaungtha road in Ayeyarwady region, according to the local police.
A private car collided with an express bus and caught fire, killing seven people on board, including two men, three women and two children, said an officer of the Ayeyarwady police.
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The officer said the passengers on the express bus were not seriously injured as they all got off the bus after the accident. They tried to open the doors of the private car when the fire broke out, but failed.
The victims were brought to Pathein hospital, according to rescue teams.
2 years ago
Police investigate deaths of 3 young children in New Zealand
Three young children who had just moved to New Zealand from South Africa have died in what police said Friday they're investigating as homicide.
Police said they were not looking for any possible suspects beyond those involved in the incident late Thursday at a home in the South Island town of Timaru. They said emergency services had found a woman at the address who had been hospitalized in stable condition.
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Police said the children were 3-year-old twins and a 7-year-old who were all siblings. All those involved had recently moved from South Africa to New Zealand, police said, and had moved out of a mandatory coronavirus quarantine facility within the past week.
In a brief news conference, police said the investigation was in its early stages and they couldn't yet release many details, including the names of the children or how they died.
Inspector Dave Gaskin, the Aoraki area commander, said the deaths would be “incredibly distressing” for residents of Timaru, particularly after five teenagers from the town were killed in a car crash last month.
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The Stuff news organization said neighbors Karen and Brad Cowper called police just after 10 p.m. when they heard a man screaming and crying. The neighbors said they asked the man if he was OK but he didn't respond other than to say: “Is this really happening?”
Stuff reported the family was living in accommodation for hospital staff, and both the man and woman were medical professionals.
3 years ago
Bangladeshi Lyft driver killed in NYC crash
A Bangladeshi-American Lyft driver died after a ‘drunken driver’ struck his vehicle in Queens, New York City on Sunday.
The accident took place at the intersection of Fresh Pond Road and Elliott Avenue in Maspeth.
Authorities identified the victim as Mohammed Hossain, 47, a father of three in Brooklyn, according to local dailies. He had migrated from Bangladesh 12 years ago.
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Hossain’s devastated friends and relatives visited the scene of the crash Sunday morning, trying to wrap their head around the sudden loss of the beloved family man.
Hossain supported his wife and their three children in Borough Park, Brooklyn, by driving for Uber and Lyft.
“It’s only when the person you just talked to a few days ago is joking and you’re not there. It doesn’t make sense,” his brother-in-law Rezaul Rahman said.
Rahman says his sister, Hossain’s wife, was contacted after 8 am.
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“I went in and saw her on the phone. She saw me and started crying. At that point you don’t know how to feel,” Rahman said.
The alleged drunk driver, 22-year-old Erik Chimborazo of Brooklyn, fled the scene but returned a short time later, according to police.
He's been charged with DWI, driving without a license and insurance and vehicular manslaughter, according to the NYPD.
The passenger of the Explorer was also injured and taken to a nearby hospital.
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According to police, Eric Chimborazo was drunk when he drove a red light and Hossain’s car at T-Bone. The surveillance video showed the impact of the crash.
Hossain was taken to Waikov Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
His passengers were also slightly injured.
3 years ago
Tiger Woods returns to Florida to recover from car crash
Tiger Woods is back at home in Florida to resume his recovery from career-threatening leg injuries he suffered when his SUV ran off a road and down a hill in the Los Angeles suburbs last month.
3 years ago