Woman cop dies as dumper crashes into rickshaw

Surat: A 35-year-old woman police constable was knocked to death by a speeding dumper truck when she was on duty at Bhestan crossroad early on Thursday.
The dumper loaded with sand crashed into a rickshaw that the victim Leena Mori was checking. The rickshaw was dragged for nearly 500 metres and the dumper driver then escaped. He was later caught from Sachin area and identified as Badiya Bhuriya, 40, a resident of Jhabua in Madhya Pradesh.
After knocking down Mori, Bhuriya abandoned the vehicle a few kilometres away in Unn.He started walking to escape but police nabbed him before he could leave the city.
Mori was on duty along with two other cops and home guard personnel. They had stopped two rickshaws for checking. The dumper knocked the rickshaw in the second lane from behind within a few seconds after it was stopped by police. Mori was right in front of the rickshaw when the dumper crashed into it. She suffered severe head injury.
Lok Rakshak Dal cop Govind Vakatar (35) and Ashraf and Chetan, both rickshaw drivers, suffered injuries.
Police suspect that the dumper was speeding due to traffic-free road at night and since it was loaded it did not stop immediately.
Mori had recently completed a five-year fixed term as lok rakshak and was appointed as a police constable. A native of Aravalli district, Mori lived with her husband and two children aged 8 and 2 years. Her husband is unemployed and her younger son suffers from heart ailment. She had to take him to Ahmedabad for treatment every month.
Mori’s colleagues in Pandesara police station launched a campaign to collect funds for her family since she was the only earning member in the family.