Five killed and 12 injured in separate accidents in Madhya Pradesh-Telangana Today

Two persons died and 12 were injured when a tractor-trailer carrying them overturned near Hanuman Dol on Betul-Parasia Road.

Betul: Five people were killed and twelve injured accidents involving heavy vehicles Madhya Pradesh‘s Betul district, police said on Sunday.

Two persons died and 12 were injured when a tractor-trailer carrying them overturned near Hanuman Dol on Betul-Parasia Road around 7 am on Sunday, an official said.

Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) Kamla Joshi said the victims were laborers returning to their village from Betul railway station in a tractor trolley.

The vehicle overturned, killing two of them, she said, adding that the injured were taken to a hospital. The official said the workers traveled from there to Betul KanyakumariTamil Nadu, where they had started working in a factory a month ago.

District Collector Narendra Raghuvanshi said there were 21 persons on the tractor trolley, all residents of Bakud and Dulara villages in Ghoradongri tehsil, who were returning from Kanyakumari for the festive season.

He said one of the three seriously injured persons had been referred to Bhopal for further treatment. In another accident in the district, three persons were killed when a truck hit their two-wheeler on Betul-Athner road around 11 pm on Saturday, police said.

The accident took place near Bharkawadi village, about 10 km from the district headquarters, said Anjana Dhurve, in-charge of Betul Bazar police station. A fertilizer truck hit the two-wheeler and the injured men were rushed to hospital where doctors declared them brought dead, she said.

The official said the victims were identified as Vijay (35), Krishna Dhurve (20) and Raghunath Sareyam (38). A case has been registered against the truck driver who took off and left the vehicle behind.