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A lorry carrying brew from Karnataka overturned aft colliding with a car successful Kozhikode aboriginal Monday, sidesplitting its operator and scattering hundreds of bottles onto the road, the constabulary said.
The deceased has been identified arsenic Akhil Krishnan (30) of Valiamram, Pulpally successful Wayanad district.
According to the FIR registered astatine the Chevayoor constabulary station, the lorry, en way to Ernakulam, astir 4 am, collided with a Telangana-registered car that was allegedly being driven negligently astatine Iringadanpalli junction.
The constabulary said the interaction caused the lorry to overturn, resulting successful implicit 700 boxes of brew bottles falling onto the road.
After a astir an hour-long rescue operation, Krishnan was pulled retired from the conveyance and rushed to Kozhikode Medical College Hospital, wherever helium was declared dead, the constabulary said.
More than 20 constabulary unit person been deployed astatine the mishap tract to forestall radical from taking distant the brew bottles.
The spilt bottles volition beryllium cleared aft the Excise section completes the required documentation procedures, the constabulary said.
A lawsuit has been registered against the operator of the different vehicle, and an probe is nether way.
