NEW DELHI, Feb 2 (NNN-PTI) – Six people were killed and a few others injured, some of them critically, after a passenger vehicle collided head-on with a truck, yesterday, in India’s northern Punjab state, police said.
The accident took place at village Giddarpindi, in Jalandhar district, about 190 km west of Chandigarh, the capital city of Punjab.
The victims have been identified as labourers.
“Today (yesterday), six labourers were killed and a few others injured, when a vehicle carrying them collided head-on with a truck, on Malanwala-Jalandhar road,” official said. “The labourers were coming from Makhu side in Ferozepur district, going to Lohian in Jalandhar.”
The injured have been sent to Zira civil hospital in adjacent Ferozepur district.
“Six people were brought dead here and a few others are undergoing treatment,” a health official at Ferozepur hospital said.
Last night nine people were killed and over a dozen others injured when a vehicle carrying them hit a tree and overturned in Odisha state.
According to federal road transport and highways minister, Nitin Gadkari, every day 415 people die in the country, due to road accidents.– NNN-PTI
