Mysore/Mysuru, March 29 -- A bike rider and an autorickshaw driver had a miraculous escape when a huge tree got uprooted and fell on the vehicles near Sahakara Bhavan on Chamaraja Double Road in city yesterday afternoon. Both the vehicles have been damaged in the incident.

This tree had leaned towards the road since a few days and though there was no rain or wind, the huge tree got uprooted and fell across the road as the roots of the tree had become weak due to root suffocation, it is learnt.

Soon, Police personnel and MCC officials, staff and MCC Abhaya team members, who reached the spot, cleared the fallen tree and made way for smooth flow of traffic. Vehicular traffic was disrupted till the tree was cleared.

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