SANGRUR: Six people, including a four-year-old boy, died after the car they were travelling in collided with a truck coming from the opposite direction on Sunam–Malerkotla road in Sangrur district on Thursday morning.Police said that the occupants of the car were on their way back to Sunam from Malerkotla when the collision took place. The car had overtaken an oil tanker and collided head-on with the truck.The victims have been identified as Neeraj Singla, his four-year-old son Davesh Jindal, along with Deepak Jindal, Lalit Bansal, and Vijay Kumar.Tragically, the cars attempt to overtake the oil tanker led to a devastating sequence of events. In a matter of seconds, the oil tanker also struck the car from behind. While the oil tanker driver sustained injuries in the accident, the truck driver managed to flee from the spot. The incident occurred around 2am, a police officer said.A case has been registered against the truck driver, who absconded from the scene. Postmortems of the deceased have been conducted, statements from family members have been recorded, and the bodies are being handed over to the grieving families.

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