Truck bumps into marriage procession, 13 died and 18 injured
Truck bumps into marriage procession, 13 died and 18 injured
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JAIPUR: On Tuesday, a speeding truck ran into a marriage Barat in Rajasthan's Pratapgarh district fatally hitting 13 people, four of them children, while leaving 18 others injured. Choti Sadri DSP Vijaypal Singh Sandhu said the accident happened near Ramdev temple on State Highway-113 late on Monday when the truck, going to Banswara from Nimbahera, rammed into the marriage party moving on the roadside.

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However Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot said he was deeply saddened to hear about the accident. He tweeted "My heartfelt condolences to the grieved families. I pray for speedy recovery of injured people (sic),". He said the injured were rushed to a government hospital in Choti Sadri and later on 15 of them, who were critically hurt, were referred to a facility in Udaipur.

 In the incident nine of the deceased have been identified as - Daulatram (60), Bharat (30), Shubham (5), Chotu (5), Dilip (11), Arjun (15), Ishu (19), Ramesh (30) and Karan (28), police said. It is to be noted that for the incident a statement came from the DSP said the truck driver apparently could not see the procession. He said the bodies are kept in a mortuary for post-mortem and an investigation is underway. 

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