Local residents made a beeline for a diesel tanker as the fuel started spilling from it, after it was hit by a tipper lorry at Ternamakki in the taluk on national highway-66.
The police arrived at the spot, stemmed the spillage of the diesel and dispersed the crowd. As many as 2,000 litres of the oil, on its way to a petrol bunk in Sirsi from Mangaluru, flowed all over the road. Fire personnel had a tough time cleaning the road with soap.
(Published 03 June 2019, 16:33 IST)
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