MP: 15 of a family headed for funeral die as tractor rams jeep in Morena

  • | Friday | 22nd June, 2018

Ten people, including five women, died on the spot and five more in hospital.Morena SP Amit Sanghi said the tractor driver is missing. BHOPAL: Fifteen members of a family headed for a relative’s funeral were killed when a tractor, carrying illegally mined sand from Chambal river , rammed into an overloaded jeep around 5.30am in Morena on Thursday. The impact was so severe that the jeep was crushed like a tin can, flipped over a few times and landed upside down. The victims were entangled in the mangled wreckage.Some passersby informed police, who cut the twisted steel to retrieve the dead and injured. Six people are critically injured.Police said the tractor was speeding towards Morena while the jeep, carrying 20 people plus the driver, was coming from the opposite direction.At a bend on Ambah road near Ghurghan village, about 25km from Morena town, the tractor crashed into the jeep head-on.

BHOPAL: Fifteen members of a family headed for a relative’s funeral were killed when a tractor, carrying illegally mined sand from Chambal river , rammed into an overloaded jeep around 5.30am in Morena on Thursday. Six people are critically injured.Police said the tractor was speeding towards Morena while the jeep, carrying 20 people plus the driver, was coming from the opposite direction.At a bend on Ambah road near Ghurghan village, about 25km from Morena town, the tractor crashed into the jeep head-on. The impact was so severe that the jeep was crushed like a tin can, flipped over a few times and landed upside down. The victims were entangled in the mangled wreckage.Some passersby informed police, who cut the twisted steel to retrieve the dead and injured. The survivors have been admitted to the district hospital in Morena. Ten people, including five women, died on the spot and five more in hospital.Morena SP Amit Sanghi said the tractor driver is missing.

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