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Death in hospital, mishap toll 21
Sumana Das Mahapatra died on Tuesday morning, taking the toll in Friday’s bus accident on VIP Road to 21. The 38-year-old, a nurse at Beleghata ID Hospital, was fighting for life in the intensive therapy unit of Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals for the past four days. Doctors said she died of acute respiratory distress syndrome, caused by drowning. Sumana is survived by her husband Saumitra and eight-year-old daughter Sukriti.
he other victims of the mishap who are admitted in hospitals are recovering.
Suicide by schoolgirl
Baisakhi Chakraborty, a Class XII student of Deshabandhu Balika Vidyalaya, hanged herself from the ceiling of her Ichhapur Road house early on Tuesday. Her father, Gautam, said Baisakhi went to bed around midnight on Monday and did not show any sign of depression. Baisakhi’s cellphone record suggests she had a boyfriend.
Roadblock
A two-hour Trinamul Congress roadblock at 23 crossings across the city threw traffic out of gear on Tuesday afternoon. The Trinamul was protesting the price hike.
Power alert
Power supply to parts of south Calcutta will be affected on Thursday as CESC will carry out an “urgent maintenance job” in its high-tension network in the Thakurpukur area.
JU poll
The Democratic Students Front (DSF), a pro-Naxalite students’ lobby, won the faculty of engineering and technology students’ union election of Jadavpur University for the 32nd year on Tuesday.
Body exhumed
The CID on Tuesday exhumed the body of Kamal Sarkar, 52, who had died in July 2007, and sent it for post-mortem to find out if the death was due to murder or cardiac arrest. Kamal’s mother Namita Sarkar had alleged that Sonarpur police had colluded with her daughter-in-law and a local doctor to declare her son’s death a case of cardiac arrest, even though there had been injury marks on his body.
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