Punjab’s four farmers, who were returning from the protest sites near Delhi borders, were killed in two separate road accidents on Tuesday, while another one died of a heart attack in Delhi.
As the number of farmers dying during the protest increasing with each passing day, Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh on Tuesday assured assistance to the families of the deceased farmers.
In the first incident, two farmers from Patiala were killed early morning after their tractor-trolley was hit by a truck in Haryana’s Karnal district. In the accident, which took place on Taraori flyover in Karnal, a third farmer was seriously injured while some others sitting on the trolley escaped with minor injuries.
Taraori police station’s SHO Inspector Sachin said that the two deceased were aged around 24 years and 50 years respectively.
Police further said that one of the farmers, travelling in the tractor trolley, told them that the truck driver appeared to have fallen asleep behind the wheels which led to the accident.
The truck driver managed to flee from the spot, said the police, adding that a case under relevant provisions of law has been registered in connection with the incident.
The farmers, who were returning from Delhi, belonged to Saphera under Sadar Police station in Patiala.In another road mishap, two more farmers from Punjab died while seven others were injured when their vehicle collided with a truck near Bhagomajra in Mohali on Tuesday.The police officials said that deceased Deep Singh was a resident of Mohali district while Sukhdev Singh Dadiana was a native of Fatehgarh Sahib district.
Out of the injured farmers, four, who were wounded seriously, have been referred to the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) and a government hospital in Chandigarh, said the officials, adding that the three others were admitted to a hospital in Mohali. Punjab Health and Family Welfare Minister Balbir Singh Sidhu also met the injured farmers.