Baloda Bazar (Chhattisgarh) [India], May 15 (ANI): Six persons including a child were killed in a road accident in Chhattisgarh's Baloda Bazaar district on Monday, the police said.

According to the police, the accident took place near Goda Bridge in the Baloda Bazar district after a pickup vehicle carrying over 2 dozen people was hit by a truck leaving six dead.

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The incident took place under Palari police station limits. A child and woman are also among those killed in the accident, Baloda Bazar SSP Deepak Jha said.

Further details on the matter are awaited.

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Earlier in February this year, two persons were killed and 12 others injured when a speeding tractor-trolley overturned near Sankar village in the Janjgir-Champa district of Chhattisgarh

The incident occurred near Sankar village under the Akaltara Police Station area when the tractor-trolley carrying over 30 people was returning from a fair in Parsahi Nala on the occasion of Mahashivratri. (ANI)

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