POINGUINIM: Head constable Sandesh Balsu Bhagat, 51, of Bhagatwada, Canacona, who had met with an accident while returning home from duty, succumbed to his injuries while undergoing treatment at Goa Medical College (GMC).
According to Canacona police, at Nagarcem, Bhagat’s motorcycle had rammed into stray cattle squatting under the Manohar Parrikar bypass highway bridge.
He had sustained grievous injuries and was first taken to the Canacona community health centre from where he was shifted to GMC.
Locals said many stray cattle squat under the bridge and pose a menace to motorists travelling on the Chaudi char-rasta road, which is a part of the highway.
Bhagat was from the Canacona police station.
He is the second policeman who died in road accident in the last 24 hours. Assistant sub-inspector Naresh Narvekar, 50, from Paliem, Keri, Pernem was returning home from work when his car went off the road.
