Jodhpur: Five people, including three women, were killed and 12 others injured after a pick-up jeep they were travelling in collided head-on with a truck in Rajasthan's Churu district, police said on Monday.
The incident took place in Bhaleri area of the district on Sunday night, they said. The tourist bus was carrying 17 passengers and it was heading towards Jaisalmer.
The incident was reported from Phalodi Police station limits and the deceased were residents of Delhi.
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Police officer Hari Singh Rajpurohit, Assistant Police Sub-Inspector Narendra Singh, emergency medical technician (EMT) and ambulance service reached the spot and the injured were rushed to a nearby hospital for treatment.
The pick-up jeep was headed towards Sardarshahar from Haryana when it collided with the truck, the police said.
The deceased were identified as Kalawati (65), Monu (12), Bhateri (62), Ramnarayan (38) and Sunita (32). The bodies were handed over to the family members of the deceased after post-mortem, the police said.
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Police said that they are still in the process of identifying the deceased and have launched an investigation. The victims were going to the house of a relative who had passed away, they said.
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With PTI inputs
