India News | Gujarat: Three Children Among Four Killed as Pick-up Van Overturns
Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. At least four persons, including three children, were killed and seven others injured on Wednesday when the pickup van carrying them overturned due to a tyre burst and fell into a roadside drain in Gujarat's Vadodara district, police said.
Vadodara, May 29 (PTI) At least four persons, including three children, were killed and seven others injured on Wednesday when the pickup van carrying them overturned due to a tyre burst and fell into a roadside drain in Gujarat's Vadodara district, police said.
The pick-up van was carrying labourers from Madhya Pradesh to Vadodara, a Jarod police station official said.
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The accident occurred on a state highway near Kotambi village after a rear tyre of the vehicle burst, following which it fell into a roadside drain, he said.
"Four persons, including three children aged 3 to 7 years and a 45-year-old man, were killed on the spot. Seven injured passengers were shifted to a government hospital in Vadodara," the official added.
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