11 Dead, Several Injured After Pickup Vehicle Collides With Truck In Chhattisgarh: Police

Eleven people were killed and several others injured after a pickup vehicle collided with a truck in Chhattisgarh.

11 dead in Chhattisgarh road accident

New Delhi: At least eleven people died and several others were injured when a pickup vehicle they were travelling in collided with a truck in the Baloda Bazaar district of Chhattisgarh, police said on Friday, reported ANI. 

The accident took place on Thursday night.  According to ANI, Sub-Divisional Police Officer (SDOP) Bhatapara Siddhartha Baghel said, "The pickup vehicle collided head-on with the truck. The incident took place at village Khamariya under Bhatapara (rural) police station limits." 

SDPO added that the pickup vehicle was returning from a function when it was hit by a truck at Arjuni leaving 11 persons dead whereas around eight others were injured. 

 
"With the help of locals, the injured were immediately taken to a nearby hospital while some of them were referred to Raipur for better medical assistance," said the officer. The SDOP further informed, as mentioned in the ANI report, that the police have registered an offence in connection with the accident and launched a probe. 

In a similar accident in Chhattisgarh's Kanker district, around seven school children died while a child and an auto driver sustained injuries after an auto-rickshaw carrying school children collided with a truck on February 9, an official said, reported ANI. 

Kanker CMHO (Chief Medical and Health Officer) Avinash Khare said, "There were eight students travelling in the auto-rickshaw. The students were returning to their homes from school. During this, an accident occurred with a truck in which five children died on the spot and two more children died on the way to the district hospital." 

"One child is in critical condition but we have made him stable and referred him to Raipur. The condition of the auto driver is stable," CMHO Khare added, quoted ANI.