Eight people were killed, while 34 others were injured in two different accidents across the State in the past 24 hours.As many as six people including three children died when a jeep carrying around 21 passengers rammed into a wall. The jeep was moving with a very high speed and soon after the accident, it turned turtle and the collision proved fatal for six passengers.
The jeep was carrying newspapers from Jhansi to Tikamgarh. The jeep had loaded newspapers from Jhansi railway station at around 3.30 o’clock in the night and was on its way to Tikamgarh the driver in slumber lost control over the vehicle and it rammed into a school’s boundary wall.
The victims were rushed to the district hospital where six was declared dead while two of the severely injured were immediately referred to Gwalior. The remaining injured victims are undergoing treatment at the district hospital. Victims have claimed that the medical assistance reached at around 7 am which cost the injured their lives.
In another incident, at around 8 am Khandwa Collector Neeraj Dube’s car rammed into a truck in which besides Dube, his driver and gunman were injured. Khandwa Collector Neeraj Dube, his gunman and driver were injured when their car collided with a vegetable truck at a tri-section between Bairagargh and Kajuri, about 11 kms from Bhopal, they said.
Dube was coming to Bhopal to attend a meeting when the mishap took place. The collector escaped with minor injuries, while his gunman and driver sustained serious injuries and were admitted to a private hospital where their condition was said to be stable, police said.
The police have registered a case under sections 279 and 337 of the IPC. The truck has been seized though its driver fled, police said, adding that efforts were on to trace him.