Jaipur: A speeding truck ran into a marriage procession in Rajasthan’s Pratapgarh district fatally hitting 13 people, four of them children, while leaving 18 others injured, police said, Tuesday.
The accident happened near Ramdev temple on State Highway-113 late Monday night when the truck, going to Banswara from Nimbahera, rammed into the marriage party moving on the roadside, Choti Sadri DSP Vijaypal Singh Sandhu informed.
Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot said he was deeply saddened to hear about the accident. “My heartfelt condolences to the families of the deceased. I pray for speedy recovery of injured people (sic),” tweeted Ghelot.
Police informed that the injured were rushed to a government hospital in Choti Sadri and later on 15 of them, who were critically hurt, were referred to other facilities in Udaipur.
Nine of the deceased have been identified as Daulatram (60), Bharat (30), Shubham (5), Chotu (5), Dilip (11), Arjun (15), Ishu (19), Ramesh (30) and Karan (28), police said. He said the bodies have been kept in a mortuary for post-mortem and an investigation is underway.
The DSP said the truck driver apparently could not see the procession. So he lost control of his vehicle.
PTI