Four persons including two women and a child of a family died on the spot and five others were injured when the van hit the rear of an oil tanker near Murthal flyover in Sonepat on Tuesday. Six other vehicles also collided after this accident and five others were also injured.
The deceased have been identified as Vimlesh (40), Vijay (46), Asha (6) and van driver Rakesh of Khatta Prahladpur village in Baghpat district of Uttar Pradesh and the victims were returning in a van after attending a marriage at Alipur in Karnal district.
After receiving information, police reached on the spot and brought all the accident victims here in civil hospital. Out of the 10 injured, five were referred to the PGIMS Rohtak and other injured were admitted in civil hospital. After the postmortem, bodies of the deceased were handed over to the families who reached the hospital later. The police said a case has been registered against the tanker driver who sped away after the accident.