Pics: Spoorthi Ullal
Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (SP)
Mangaluru, Apr 14: A bus which had been scrapped and kept by the side of national highway at Jappinamogaru in the outskirts of the city was torched by some miscreants at around 5 am on Sunday April 14.
The fire soon spread and engulfed a jeep which was also scrapped and kept some distance away. The Kankanady town police immediately arrived at the spot. They tried to contact the fire brigade at Pandeshwar for about 45 minutes but no one received the telephone call. Thereafter, they conveyed information to Pandeshwar police station and conveyed information to the fire brigade through them.
It was 6.20 am by the time the fire brigade personnel arrived with equipment at the spot. The people who had gathered there also were seen expressing anger at the way the fire brigade operates and wondering what would have happened if lives and high value things were at stake.