speeding truck, Rajasthan, Ramdev temple, DSP Vijaypal Singh
Jaipur: A speeding truck ran into a marriage procession in Rajasthan’s Pratapgarh district fatally hitting 13 people, four of them children, while leaving 18 others injured, police said on Tuesday.
The accident happened near Ramdev temple on State Highway-113 Monday night when the truck, going to Banswara from Nimbahera, rammed into the marriage party moving on the roadside, Choti Sadri DSP Vijaypal Singh Sandhu said. Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot said he was deeply saddened to hear about the accident.
“My heartfelt condolences to the grieved families. I pray for speedy recovery of injured people (sic),” he tweeted. Nine of the deceased have been identified as: Daulatram (60), Bharat (30), Shubham (5), Chotu (5), Dilip (11), Arjun (15), Ishu (19), Ramesh (30) and Karan (28). The DSP said the truck driver apparently could not see the procession.
