BHOPAL: A mechanic pumping air into a truck tyre was killed, parts of him blown to pieces, when the tubeless tyre sprung out of the rim and slammed him in the face at a workshop in Jaura town of Morena district on Monday.
The impact was so fierce that victim Ajay Kushwaha was hurled 20 feet and died instantly. Witnesses say that only a couple of seconds before the accident, he had advised those sitting close to him to move to a safe distance, said police. “Earlier, it was suspected that the tyre had blown up. It was a tubeless tyre, which slipped out of its rim while being inflated. Ajay was sitting close to the tyre, and took the full impact on his face,” Jaura police station in-charge Yogendra Singh Jadaun told TOI.
“Two other persons, including the truck driver, were sitting close to him. Ajay told them to move off to a side when he inflated the tyre. The moment they moved aside, the accident happened. He saved their lives,” said Jadaun.
