Seven people were killed and eight injured in separate road accidents in Punjab on Sunday. In the first incident, five people died and eight received injuries when a tanker truck hit an overloaded auto-rickshaw near Lambra village in Jalandhar.
The deceased have been identified as auto driver Raman Kumar, 32, Mohinder, 23, Dharam Devi, 35, Dilip Singh 40, his three-year-old daughter, and Raman 28, all natives of Bihar.
Police said 10 passengers were travelling in the auto when the tanker truck collided with it after hitting a road divider. The truck also rammed into a car leaving its occupants with minor injuries.
Injured told the police that they were returning home after paying obeisance at a church.
Police the victims, all relatives, were labourers. Police have registered a case against truck driver Kamaljeet Singh for rash driving.
In another accident, two people were killed when the bike they were riding on was hit by a tipper from rear at Chachoki town near Phagwara around 9am on Sunday.
The victims, Manak Kumar, 18, of Maqsudan Colony in New Nagra here and his friend Ishu Singh, 20, of Gandhi Nagar, Jalandhar, died on the spot. The local police said both were on their way to Jalandhar from Ludhiana when the tipper driver could not spot the bike due to dense fog. The tipper driver managed to flee.
Manak’s uncle Vipin Kumar said that both were coming from Ludhiana after celebrating the birthday of his cousin.
Urban Estate police post in-charge Mukhtyar Singh said a case of rash driving and murder has been registered against the unidentified tipper driver. Bodies have been handed over to families after postmortem.
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