Kerala Mini Cooper Collision Kills 3 Students as Speeding Motorist Hits Scooter
Police have detained all four suspects in the Mini Cooper incident that killed three 21-year-old students in Kochi, Kerala, and opened a case of ‘culpable homicide’.A Mini Cooper rammed a two wheeler with three students on board in the Nedumbassery neighbourhood of Kochi killing all of them on the spot. The impact was too severe.
Police reached the spot after the accident, arrested the accused driver and seized the vehicle. The Mini Cooper driver allegedly sped up and crashed into the rear of the bike. Police are probing whether the accused was allegedly under the influence of alcohol at the time.
The accused driver and one other person were detained on Sunday, presented in court, and remanded to judicial custody, said KS Sudarshan, Superintendent of Police in Kochi’s Aluva. The other two accused have also been arrested and would be produced before the court,” he added. Speaking to ANI on the three death cases reported from Nedumbassery police station…we have so far invoked section 304 culpable homicide, he said.
Salim, an eyewitness, claimed he heard a loud sound and raced to the spot along with others. Three persons were injured on the road. A Mini Cooper ran into them, he said. The eyewitness described the scene after the collision, adding angry locals intercepted the truck before the driver tried to brush off the gravity of the occurrence.
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