Ludhiana, Aug. 18 -- Two factory workers were killed after an unidentified tanker hit them from behind while they were walking to a nearby eatery on the National Highway near Sahnewal, police said on Monday. The tanker driver fled the spot after the collision, they added.

According to police, the victims, Sandeep, 26, and Atma Prasad, 29, were employed at RS Industries on Jaspal Bangar Road in Dhandari Kalan. According to the complaint filed by Bansi Lal, father of Sandeep, the two men had set out on foot towards Sahnewal for a meal. When they reached the service road near Highway Industries, the tanker hit them from behind. The impact left both workers critically injured, and they died at the spot.

Locals and commuters alerted the poli...