CMs escort jeep hits ambulance with patient

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: An ambulance, carrying a critical patient, had a minor collision with the escort jeep of Chief Minister Oommen Chandy on the bypass road near Technopark here on Saturday. Nobody was injured in the accident. The ambulance was on its way to a private hospital with Abdul Raheem, who had been referred from a hospital at Venjaramoodu to a private hospital in the city.The accident occurred around 4 p.m. when the escort jeep, on its way to Kollam, hit the ambulance while trying to avert a collision with another Toyota car which had overtaken the jeep. The engine of the ambulance turned off after the collision.