Three persons including a woman and a girl died while two boys of a family were injured after a truck transporting sand turned turtle and rammed into the house at Rujenkhedi of Sehore in the wee hours on Friday.
According to Nasrullahganj police the incident occurred when truck which was illegally transporting sand from Chindgoan Kanchi to Indore turned turtle after spotting cattle at the road and three persons died of suffocation in the sand while two were injured and are undergoing treatment.
The truck bearing registration number MP09-GE-0802 was seized by the police from the spot while the driver escaped the spot leaving the truck. The search for the errant truck driver has been started.
Police team on receiving the information rushed to the spot and took the injured to nearby hospital where three of the injured were declared dead.
The deceased were identified as Sawan Singh (45), his wife Savita Bai and their 14-year-old daughter Prarthna while the injured children were Priyanshu (12) and Dipanshu (10).
Incident took place at 4 am when the truck was illegally transporting sand. The prices of sand have soared after sand mining was banned by NGT but the illegal sand mining was continued to maximise their profits.
On Monday, at the banks of river Narmada near Nasrullahganj around 80 trucks were seized which were found transporting illegal sand and even after the ban imposed on sand mining the illegal sand mining has been continued in the nights and which has claimed three lives in the area.