Iron rods injure 2 Nigerians in freak accident
April 19th, 2010 - 10:02 pm ICT by IANSNew Delhi, April 19 (IANS) In a freak incident, two Nigerians travelling in a car were critically injured early Monday morning when iron rods jutting out of a truck pierced their bodies after a collision near Savitri cinema in south Delhi, police said.
Adoma, 22, and Chic, 22, both information technology (IT) students, were on their way to Vasant Vihar from Nehru Place when the accident took place.
“We got to know about the accident at 3 a.m. Our team rushed to the spot and shifted the injured to AIIMS trauma centre,” said a police officer.
Iron rods pierced the chest, arm and leg of Adoma who was driving the car. Chic who was sitting behind the driver’s seat was wounded in the leg by rods that pierced through Adoma’s body.
“The injuries are serious. Police brought the patients along with the car to the hospital,” a doctor at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) told IANS.
“Within half an hour of the police reaching the accident spot, they shifted the patients to hospital. Another good thing they did was that they did not pull out the rod from the patients’ body,” the doctor added.
“Fire officials also reached the spot with gas cutters and the rods were removed under our supervision. Both the patients have undergone surgery. The surgery was successful but the condition of one of them is still critical,” the doctor added.
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