Away from the ground, 2 players
from United Bank Limited, a Pakistan first-class team, were injured in a fire
that broke out at the Regent Plaza Hotel in Karachi on Monday. In an accident
that left at least 11 people dead and 45 injured, allrounder Yasim Murtaza
fractured his heel while 20-year-old legspinner Karamat Ali suffered a hand
injury in a bid to save themselves. Ten players from UBL, along with Umar Amin,
who plays for Sui Southern Gas Corporation, were staying at the hotel for the
ongoing super-eight round of the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy, Pakistan's premier
first-class tournament.
Back home in Bengaluru, in
a tragic turn of events, two Kannada actors died after a movie stunt went
horribly wrong at Tippagondanahalli Lake. The actors were filming the stunts
for an upcoming film ‘Masti Gudi,’ which stars Duniya Vijay in the lead role.
While filming the scene, Vijay and the two actors, Anil and Uday, jumped into
the lake from a helicopter. While the lead actor swam ashore, the other two
didn’t surface for a long time, post which a search party was immediately
dispatched. Reports suggested that safety
harness was provided to the lead actor but none were provided to the other two.
The two had even confessed to not being good swimmers before going into the
shot.
A young chess grandmaster
fell to his death in an apparent parkour accident, after he attempted to jump
between balconies in Moscow. According to Russian news reports, 20-year-old
Yuri Eliseev died after falling from the 12th floor of his apartment building in Moscow. It is
reported that Eliseev died while trying
to reach the balcony of a neighbouring apartment. He was described as a
practitioner of parkour, or free-running, which involves climbing, jumping to
difficult perches and acrobatic moves. 'Balconing' has become a popular craze
with Brits holidaying in Spain. Government travel advice has been updated to
urge British tourists in Spain to use balconies safely. The Foreign Office
(FCO) said there had been a number of 'very serious accidents' as a result of
falls from balconies and popular craze 'balconing'.
This one is different ~ a young
cricketer tipped for an international career drowned after friends encouraged
him to jump in a river despite knowing he could not swim, an inquest has heard.
Hamza Shabbir Ali, 20 - who already played for Hampshire's first XI and was
expected to play at the top level - drowned in the River Avon in Saltford near
Bath while he and some friends were playing on a rope swing. Witnesses told the
inquest how they heard the Mr Ali's friends urging him to 'come in the water'
and try out the rope swing.
Mr Ali then told them he
couldn't swim but, after more encouragement, he tried to doggy paddle across
the water. As he did, he became submerged below the surface of the water. Around
20 people dived into the river to look for Mr Ali until his unconscious body
was finally recovered. At an inquest into his death, a bystander said she was at a nearby pub with her then
partner when she heard Hamza's two friends encouraging him into the water. She
said: 'Steven had to swim back to the rope swing bank. Steven went back into
the water and kept diving under to help. The two friends on the rope swing did
not get in to help Steven.
It's always tragic when
anyone loses their life, especially when it is a young person of 20 years of
age .. but this cannot be faulted as a total accident. In some of the instances listed above, there
is element of human negligence / carelessness too.
With regards – S.
Sampathkumar
5th Dec 2016.
