seven killed as trailer hits funeral party
DHANBAD, Nov. 10 -- Seven people were killed and 14 others injured after a speeding trailer rammed into a stationary passenger vehicle carrying 19 people to Varanasi for the last rites of a family elder in Jharkhand's Hazaribagh district on Monday morning, police said.
The accident took place at 10:30 am near Mahanetand cut, close to Hathiya Baba Mod in Danua Valley. The victims were from Salaiyatand village of Bagodar block in Giridih district. Police said the passenger vehicle stopped by the roadside to tighten the rope securing the body when a speeding trailer coming from behind hit it.
Chauparan police station officer-in-charge Pankaj Kumar said, "The impact was such that the pick-up van overturned, throwing several passengers onto the road."...
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