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Local residents who witnessed the accident said the driver seemed to have lost control over the wheel and had tried to steer the vehicle back to the road. The Kallada bus that overturned at Thiruvazhiyode junction on the Palakkad—Cherpulassery stretch on August 23, 2023. PALAKKAD: Two persons were killed as a private bus, which was on its way from Chennai to Kozhikode, overturned at the Thiruvazhiyode junction in Palakkad district on Wednesday. There were 38 passengers in the bus at the time of the accident. According to the police, the luxury bus of Kallada Travels veered off the road and overturned at around 7.45 a.m. The deceased were identified as Ishaan, 19, a native of Kuttiyadi, and Sainaba Beevi, 39, of Ponnani. Both of them were thrown off and got caught underneath the bus. Ishaan and Sainaba died while undergoing treatment at the district hospital. 13 passengers with minor wounds were admitted to the district hospital in Palakkad. The others — Sufaid, Diya M Nair, Nishant...

 On Feb 17, Biju Kurian went missing from Israel on the day the delegation was scheduled to return to Kerala.                              Biju Kurian, the Kerala-based farmer, who went missing in Israel. THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Biju Kurian, the Kannur Iritty-based farmer who went missing in Israel as part of the 28-member State Government delegation, reached Karipur airport on Monday morning. Later he told reporters in front of his home that he was not deported, but returned willingly. The State Government has set out a sigh of relief after the safe return of 48-year-old Biju Kurian. He reached Karipur airport from Tel Aviv via Bahrain on a Gulf Air flight at 4 am. His brother, Benny Kurian, a practising lawyer in Kannur, was there to receive him at the airport. "I returned voluntarily, none had deported me. It was my brother who met my flight ticket expenses. I stayed back in Israel to visit the religious plac...

 The police were investigating two separate missing cases of women who sold lotteries in Ernakulam, when they uncovered a human sacrifice plot, the IGP told TNM. A probe into two missing women from Ernakulam has led the Kerala police to a suspected case of human sacrifice. The police suspect that a couple from Thiruvalla in Pathanamthitta and a man from Ernakulam abducted and murdered the two women. The alleged motive was human sacrifice for prosperity. A probe into two missing women from Ernakulam has led the Kerala police to a suspected case of human sacrifice. The police suspect that a couple from Thiruvalla in Pathanamthitta and a man from Ernakulam abducted and murdered the two women. The alleged motive was human sacrifice for prosperity. Rosily’s daughter Manju returned to Kerala from Uttar Pradesh in August to look for her mother. She told TNM that the police had not officially informed her that her mother was murdered, she had learnt it from the media. “I hope it is not tru...