Two persons including a 25-year-old executive of a private bank riding a motorcycle were killed when a speeding goods vehicle knocked them down at Gudibande on the outskirts of the city on Saturday morning.
Zakir Hussain (25), who was working in the city, was returning to his home town Tadpatri in Andhra Pradesh for weekend holidays. He was accompanied on the pillion by his friend Narasimha Reddy (32), who was also a private firm employee. During the wee hours, a speeding canter knocked their bike down and sped away. Due to the impact the duo slipped from the bike and sustained severe head injuries since they were not wearing helmets and died on the spot due to excessive bleeding.
The incident came to light when passers-by noticed the bodies and a crushed bike in the middle of the road and alerted the police.
The police rushed to the spot and shifted the bodies to Chickballapur district hospital for post-mortem. The police managed to identify the canter and efforts are on to nab the driver who is on the run, a senior police officer said.
Pedestrian killed
In another incident, a 27-year-old fabricator was killed on the spot after a speeding vehicle knocked him down near Dhaba Gate in Devanahalli on Friday night.
Sunil Vishwakarma, a native of Uttar Pradesh and residing along with four of his friends on IVC Road in Devanahalli, was working as a welder under a private contractor at the airport and was returning home after work.
Around 11.10 p.m, he was crossing the road when a speeding vehicle knocked him down, killing him on the spot. Passers-by noticed him lying in a pool of blood and alerted the police who shifted him to a hospital where he was declared as brought dead.
The Devenahalli police have taken up a hit-and-run case and are trying to identify the vehicle through CCTV footages.
