About fifteen labourers were crushed to death by a truck in India early Tuesday while they were sleeping by a road, police said.
The accident
took place near a village in the Surat district in India’s western state of
Gujarat, area police chief Varadbhai Patel said on phone.
The dumper
truck ran over the sleeping workers, killing 12 of them at the scene, Patel
said. Eight were wounded and taken to hospital, where three more succumbed to
injuries, he added.
The workers
were from the neighbouring state of Rajasthan. The truck driver lost control of
his vehicle after it hit some sugar cane hanging out of a tractor trolley
coming from the opposite direction, Patel said.
The driver
was among those receiving treatment at the hospital.
Prime
Minister Narendra Modi expressed condolences and announced compensation for the
families of the victims and those injured.
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