Initial probe suggests that a leak in the oxygen cylinder aggrevated the blaze.
COIMBATORE: An 108 ambulance vehicle that was parked at the Coimbatore Medical College and Hospital (CMCH) caught fire at 11.10am on Saturday.
A source in the hospital said that the fire broke out due to a short circuit inside the vehicle.
Stating that no casualties were reported, the source said that a leak in the oxygen cylinder in the ambulance aggravated the fire.
An official at CMCH said that the fire broke out when the staff were changing the patient s oxygen cylinder. The ambulance staff immediately pulled out the patient, he added.
Till date, Coimbatore has recorded 733 Covid deaths and 84,206 virus cases (Photo for representative purpose only)
COIMBATORE: There seems to be a mismatch in the number of Covid-19 deaths declared by the state government and the number of bodies cremated or buried as per the Covid-19 protocol in Coimbatore district.
According to government’s media bulletin, the number of people who died due to the infection between April 26 and May1 in the district was13. But the number of people cremated/buried in Coimbatore city as per Covid-19 protocol for the same period was more than 210.
People who died of coronavirus within the city limits were cremated at four places –Athupalam, Nanjundapuram, Kavundampalayam and Chokkampudur and buried at multiple burial grounds including the ones at Selvapuram, Poo Market, Podanur, Kovaipudur and Sugunapuram.
Officially, the Covid-19 toll in the district rose to 723 with a 63-year-old woman, who was admitted to the Coimbatore Medical College and Hospital (CMCH) on April 25, succumbing to the virus (Representative image)
COIMBATORE: The district recorded its highest-ever single-day spike in Covid-19 cases on Saturday, when 1,257 people were declared positive for the virus, even as the tally increased to 79,669, just 331 short of another milestone of 80,000-mark.
The daily test positivity rate also shot up to 12.2%, with 1,257 of the 10,224 samples testing positive. The number of active Covid cases in the district too touched an all-time high of 7,288, with only 913 patients getting discharged from treatment centres on the day. The recovery rate in the district, where 71,658 of the infected have survived the virus attack, stands at 89.9%.
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COIMBATORE: A 36-year-old man hacked his 26-year-old wife to death while she was fast asleep at their house at Thondamuthur village near Kottur in Pollachi in the early hours of Friday, as she was reportedly having an affair with one of his relatives.
An investigation officer said N Lakshmanaraj, a farmer from Thondamuthur, and Saranya were married for the past six years. The couple have a five-year-old son.
He said the two used to fight often after Lakshmanaraj found out that Saranya was having an illicit affair with his relative for the past two years.
Several of Hindu Munnani members gathered at the CMCH demanding that the police arrest the accused.
COIMBATORE: Tension gripped in Coimbatore after a Hindu Munnani functionary was assaulted with an iron rod by two unidentified men on Saturday night.
The injured man has been identified as S Ramakrishnan, 36, of Thayammal Layout at Podanur. He is the vice-president of Hindu Munnani unit in Ukkadam. Ramakrishnan, who suffered injuries on his head, was admitted to Coimbatore Medical College and Hospital (CMCH).
Police said Ramakrishnan, who was engaged in catering work, was returning home from Kempatti Colony on his motorcycle around 10.30pm. When he reached Sundarapuram Junction, two men waylaid him and assaulted him with an iron rod.