ELURU:In a tragic incident here on Monday, a dejected lorry driver ended his life right in the District Collectorate and amidst staff and general public but none bothered to stop him nor tried to get him medical help.
According to reports, even the police personnel present there allegedly did not take it seriously. Even as he was frothing from mouth, they just helped him lie down on a bench and left him there.
However, 15 minutes later, on the advice of the people there, they called up the emergency medical service 108. The ambulance allegedly took about 20 minutes to reach the Collectorate which was just half a kilometre from the place where it was stationed.
Within 10 minutes of reaching the area general hospital, despite efforts by the doctors to rescue him, the man breathed his last.
The lorry driver, Moru Vengala Rao (42) of Maheswarapuram village in Eluru rural mandal, came to the Mee Kosam programme, a public grievance redress event, to submit a petition and stood in the queue before he suddenly took out a pesticide bottle and swallowed the chemical in it completely around 12.45 pm.
Vengala Rao addressed a letter to the Collector alleging that his brother Moru Ranga Rao, a traffic constable, and his son Moru Ashok and brother-in-law Tirumala Kiran Kumar took away his property and were threatening his family.
