A Street Accident Claims Five Lives
Midnapur,May 26, 2009:- Five persons including two women & two children died on the spot & forty people were injured in a terrible accident at Salboni at about 4 pm. last afternoon. The injured were taken in a hospital nearby. A minibus loaded with passengers was running at a high-speed.Meanwhile a lorry was coming from the opposite direction. The minibus tried to overtake a passenger bus & thus collided with the lorry. As a result part of the minibus was damaged. Five persons including the driver died on the spot. Local people rushed to the spot & rescued the trapped passengers. Of the injured taken to the hospital, seven persons were let off after first-aid & the rest was hospitalised. The minibus driver was arrested. A police enquiry is in progress.
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