Durg: Three people died and a two-year-old child sustained serious injury after the bike they were riding was crushed by an overspeeding truck in Dhor village near Jewar Sirsa outpost area of Durg district in Chhattisgarh on Monday. The wounded child is undergoing treatment.
Police said the deceased were heading to Basin from Kachandur and the intensity of the collision was so severe that the trio of the family died on the spot. The grieving family members blocked the highway in protest. They said the truck was coming from the wrong direction on the highway, leading to the fatalities. Police reached the spot to persuade the agitating family members to remove the blockade to normalise vehicular movement.
In a separate incident, two people died in a tragic road accident near Saliya village under Lohara police station of Kabirdham district. A high-speed motorcycle went out of control and rammed into the back of a truck parked on the roadside. The biker died on the spot, while the other person died during treatment in the district hospital. Both were residents of Navagaon, who had come to Kawardha for some work and were returning to their village.