
BHOPAL: Nine members of a family were on
Wednesday killed and two others injured when a cement-laden trailer truck
overturned on a van carrying them in Madhya Pradesh’s Jhabua district, police
said.
The tragedy
took place near the Sanjeli railway crossing under Meghnagar tehsil at around
2.30 am, Jhabua district superintendent of police Padmavilochan Shukla said.
The truck
was crossing an under-construction rail over-bridge (ROB) through a temporary
road near the Sanjeli railway crossing when it lost its balance and overturned
on the van, leading to the tragedy, he said.
Nine
persons were killed and two others injured in the mishap.
The injured
were admitted to the nearby government hospital.