Anuradha (23) and her daughter Bhavana (5) died on the spot while her one-year-old son Vishnuvardhan is battling for life at Nimhans, police said. Anuradha was the second wife of Shyamsundar, a cab driver. On Monday, Shyamsundar and Anuradha had a fight the whole night. Shyamsundar’s first wife Krishnakumari and their two daughters were living in a flat on the third floor of the same building. The cops are on the lookout for Shyamsundar. Krishnakumari has been detained.
Bus kills woman
Lakshmamma (40) was killed and 13 persons sustained injuries when a private bus smashed into a road-side tree on Byadarahalli road on Tuesday.
The woman was walking to her house in Muneshwar Layout when the driver of the bus lost control of the vehicle and mowed her down before ramming into a tree. The injured were rushed to two hospitals in Sunkadakatte, police said.
Hundreds of people blocked the road for a while after the accident, claiming that a divider built on the widening road had narrowed the motorable stretch.
Five arrested
The Central Crime Branch police have thwarted murder and robbery bids by arresting five people, said to be associates of gangster JCB Narayan.
Srinivas alias Kurup Seen (25), Ravi alias Gujari Ravi (27), Santosh (34), all from Hosa Road, Shankarappa (35) of Rayasandra and N Lokesh (33) of Parappana Agrahara Main Road had allegedly hatched a plan to murder members of a rival gang in Parappanaha Agrahara. Narayan was put behind bars for a year under the Goonda Act, but continued his illegal activities after release. He managed to flee during the raid, police said. A car and lethal weapons have have been seized.