DUBAI: Noted industrialist M A Yousuf Ali has come to the aide of the family of K M Basheer, unit chief of Siraj daily, who was killed in an accident yesterday. He said that he will donate Rs 10 lakh to the family of Basheer. In a condolence message, Ali said that we have lost a journalist who upheld moral values.

Basheer lost his life yesterday in an accident that happened on Vellayambalam-Museum Road in front of the public office yesterday morning at 12.55 am. The car steered by Sreeram Venkitaraman slammed Basheer’s bike killing the scribe instantly in front of the Public Office Complex.