FIRST MINING DEATH OF THE SEASON: 4 year old killed in Usgao under mining truck. Read today's Navhind Times: http://www.navhindtimes.in/goa-news/4-yr-old-run-over-dies-usgao-mishap PONDA: In an accident reported at Usgao Tiska, four-year-old, Pritesh S Dharve was run over and killed by a speeding mining truck, on Monday at around 11 a.m. Upon news of the incident, the locals held a 6-hour rasta-roko at the site, which was cleared only later in the evening by a strong police force. Locals informed that moments after the boy and his grandfather alighted from a bus, a speeding truck knocked them down and ran over the boy, who died on the spot, while the 60-year-old grandfather suffered minor injuries. Locals said that this is the first death reported during the mining season, which began after the Ganesh festival. A local woman commenting on the incident said, “People of these areas are always taken for a ride by the politicians and the mining lobbies. While palms of the police and other authorities are greased, what we get here is dust, accidents and death.” The locals alleged that the death of the minor was a result of negligence on the part of the driver of the truck. What further angered the locals was the fact that, when the boy was in the middle of the road in a pool of blood, another two truck drivers tried to navigate their trucks by the side of the dead child. The angry locals who had gathered at the site, immediately deflated the tyres of these two trucks and beat the drivers. The truck that was involved in the accident was also damaged by the locals. The locals blocked the roads as a protest over the negligence of the truckers. A few women squatted on tyres put up on the road to block the mining traffic, till 5 p.m. The DySP, Mr Serafin Dias, PI, Mr C L Patil, Mr Manoj Mardolkar, and traffic PI, Mr Salim Shaikh were at the site monitoring the situation. The angry locals ignored the warning and orders of the police personnel to clear the roads, expressing that they are willing to be arrested. A few even walked to the police bus; however, the ladies squatting on the tyres had to be physically lifted and put in the bus. They were later released from the police station. The body of the child was handed over to the relatives after the post mortem.
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