Four persons were killed while five were seriously injured when a pick-up vehicle turned turtle in Dhaurpur police station limits of Chhattisgarh's Surguja district, police said on Tuesday.
“The victims were returning from a marriage in Semardih village in the Lundra police station area and had reached Dhaurpur village on Monday night. The pick-up driver tried to save a bike but lost control of the vehicle,” Surguja Additional Superintendent of Police Om Chandel said.
The driver was drunk, he added.
The accident was so intense that three persons died on the spot while a girl who was taken to the Government Medical College at Ambikapur died on Tuesday morning, he said.