Bhopal, Aug 16
At least four people were killed and nearly a dozen others injured when a Traveller vehicle collided with a loaded truck in Madhya Pradesh’s Shivpuri district early Saturday morning, police said.
The tragic accident occurred early morning, around 6 a.m., under the jurisdiction of Surwaya police station of Shivpuri district on the National Highway 27.
The impact of the head-on collision was so severe that four people died on the spot.
The deceased have been identified as Hardik Dave (40), Ankit Thakur (22), Raja Thakur (28), and Rajpal Solanki (60), police said. Bodies have been sent for the post-mortem examination.
Those injured, many of them critically, are undergoing treatment at a government-run hospital in Shivpuri. The injured have been identified as Mohit Rawal, Ashish Vyas, Narendra Nayak, Chetan Kumar, Harshad Goswami, Mohlik, Rishikesh, and Arvind.