KOTTAYAM: A youth injured in an accident at Kuruvilangad in Kottayam died bleeding profusely. The dead has been identified as Rony Joy of Kottayam. Though a police vehicle reached the spot, they refused to take him in that vehicle. By the time the locals took him to the hospital, he had succumbed to his injuries.

Rony was fatally knocked down by another vehicle at Vembally in Kuruvilangad. A vehicle of the A R Camp in Thrissur came that way but refused to take him in their vehicle. Eye witnesses said the injured youth was lying on the road for nearly 20 minutes. When they pointed it, the police yelled at them. The locals later forcefully took him to the hospital in that vehicle, but was confirmed dead on reaching there.