Five lecturers and two students of a private engineering college were killed in an accident between their institute's bus and a truck near village Rajpura on Saha-Shahzadpur road in district Ambala on Tuesday. A spokesman of the District Administration said that out of the total 29 lecturers and students traveling in the bus, five have been referred to PGIMER whereas 14 injured were being treated in Civil Hospital, Ambala Cantonment and three injured to a private hospital at Mahesh Nagar. The doctors have declared the 17 injured persons as out of danger and CT-Scan was conducted on five injured persons at Ambala Cantonment.
After getting the information about the accident, Health Minister Anil Vij met the injured people at the hospitals in Ambala. The deceased have been identified as Vipin, a resident of Tagore Garden, Ambala Cantt; Parminder Singh, a resident of village Behbalpur; Kesar Singh, a resident of village Sounda; Deepak Sharma, a resident of Manav Chowk, Ambala City and Aamir Khan, a resident of Defence Enclave, Ambala Cantt. All of them were lecturers in SRM College, Bhurewala and Devi Dayal College, Mauli. Also, two students have lost their lives in this accident who have been identified as Manish Kumar, a resident of Ganesh Vihar, Ambala Cantt and Ankit Gupta, Babyal Road Maheshnagar, Ambala Cantt.