Two people were killed and 13 others injured when a minibus, they were travelling in, overturned and fell into a gorge on the roadside near village Kanjali. In all, there were 27 passengers travelling in the ill-fated minibus which met with the mishap in an attempt to save collision with a tractor-trolley coming from the opposite direction.
Eye-witnesses said that the bus driver Gurpreet Singh lost control over the vehicle after taking a sharp-turn to save the collision following which the bus fell into a deep gorge on Kapurthala-Kanjali road.
Passerby immediately reached the spot and started the rescue operations. The injured were rushed to civil hospital. The condition of bus driver was serious and he was taken to a Jalandhar-based private hospital by the kin. The bus was on its way to Kapurthala from Dhilwan and was nearly four kilometres away from city when it overturned.
Deceased were identified as Dhooda Ram, a resident of village Bhawanipur, while the second body could not be identified. Others who were injured in the incident include Balwinder Kaur, Amandeep Kaur, lakhwinder Kaur, Gulzar Singh, Sukhwinder Kaur, Rajwinder Kaur, Kulwinder Kaur, Chhinda, Narinderjeet Kaur, Harpinder Kaur, Jarmal Singh and Rupinder Kaur. Police had registered a case against the driver under different sections of IPC for his negligence.