Police fired a few rounds in the air to disperse the mob on Sunday
Surat: A fight over theft of mangoes from an orchard snowballed into rioting in Navsari district’s Kachholi village on Sunday midnight, forcing police to fire few rounds in the air to disperse the unrelenting mob.
A deputy superintendent of police (DySP) was also injured in stone pelting.
The mob went berserk as it wanted to avenge the attack on three persons for stealing mangoes from an orchard on previous day.
Police said that Kalpesh Talaviya, Dinesh Hadpati and Tejas Chaudhary were allegedly beaten on April 17 for stealing mangoes from the orchard of one Nimesh Naik. On Sunday night, a mob of over 50 people was on its way to Naik’s house when police reached the village to avoid any untoward incident.
The baby girl delivered in the ambulance to the farm labourer
SURAT: A pregnant woman who had tested positive for Covid-19 delivered a healthy baby girl in a 108 EMRI ambulance on Monday while being taken to New Civil Hospital in Surat from Bardoli.
The patient is a 23-yearold farm labourer. The 108 staff oversaw the delivery and tended to her in the ambulance.
The woman had been brought to a hospital in Bardoli for delivery after she got labour pains on Sunday. She tested Covid-19 positive at the time of admission.
The 108 team of Twinkle Patel, emergency medical technician, and Tejas Chaudhary, ambulance driver, were taking her to New Civil Hospital on Monday. About a kilometre from the hospital, the woman started getting labour pains again. Patel, dressed in PPE, helped to deliver the child.