Mishap claims 1
Source: The Sangai Express
CCpur, March 27 2023:
A 25-year-old youth who was in an excavator was killed on Saturday as the excavator got in touch with a high-tension power line at V Munlai village along Tipaimukh Road.
Sources said that P Lunminthang (25) son of (L) P Thianzakam of Pamzal village, Thanlon sub-division residing at Khominthang New Lamka was sitting on the excavator which was being transported in a truck when he was thrown off to the road as the excavator got in touch with an HT line.
Unfortunately, he met a double mishap as the truck that was moving crushed him with the rear wheel upon his fall, killing him on the spot.
Meanwhile, a medical team headed by Dr Thangboi Kipgen also met a mishap on the Tipaimukh Road late Friday night.
The doctor along with two other medical staff of Henglep PHC were returning home after conducting a medical camp at Santing village when they met the mishap near Hengkot village.
Dr Thangboi and his team members were retrieved from the Bolero Camper with multiple injuries by villagers who saw the mishap from a distance.
Several ambulances rushed to the spot and took the three to District Hospital where they were treated.
While Dr Thangboi is said to be still in the ICU, the other two staff are recovering at the hospital surgery ward.