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Death toll in accident up to 40
— Photo: PTI
Bodies of those killed in the truck accident being kept in the open for the purpose of identification on Sunday.
Lakhisarai (Bihar): The death toll in the Saturday night road accident in Lakhisarai district has mounted to 40, with the death of five more persons on Sunday, police said.
Thirty-five farm workers were killed and 15 injured, 10 seriously, when a truck loaded with people and food grain sacks fell off a culvert and plunged into a rivulet near Ghongsa village. “Of the 10 seriously wounded, five died in the hospital at Sikandra in the adjoining Jamui district,” said S.P. Shukla, Superintendent of Police, Lakhisarai.
Most of the people died after being crushed underneath the truck and sacks. There was little water in the rivulet. — PTI
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