Summary:
A truck carrying bags of cement and labourers overturned early on Saturday morning near Bavaliyari village on the Bhavnagar-Ahmedabad highway, killing 19 people, including 12 women and three children. "Investigation revealed that the truck driver fell asleep, while the vehicle was speeding and it veered off the road into a canal," said RV Asari, superintendent police of Ahmedabad District. The driver, Madhabhai Ratika, tried to flee, but was nabbed by police as tried to go to his home in Rajula. A night patrol reached the spot and pulled out two people stuck under the truck. "The passengers sitting on the bags of cement were crushed.".