PM Modi announces Rs 2 lakh ex gratia for kin of 15 labourers killed in Surat accident
The deceased were labourers hailing from Banswada district in Rajasthan and during the time of the incident, the people were sleeping on a footpath.
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NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed condolences over the accident in which 15 people died in Gujarat s Surat and also announced ex gratia of Rs 2 lakh each to the kin of the deceased from the Prime Minister s National Relief Fund (PMNRF). The loss of lives due to a truck accident in Surat is tragic. My thoughts are with the bereaved families. Praying that the injured recover at the earliest: PM, the Prime Minister s Office (PMO) tweeted.
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Fifteen migrant labourers were killed after a truck ran over a group of 18 people sleeping on a footpath at Kim Char Rasta near Surat in Gujarat in the wee hours on Tuesday.
The victims, all of whom were daily labourers from Rajasthan s Banswara district, were sleeping on the footpath when a sugarcane-laden tractor crashed into another truck.
The truck driver lost control of the vehicle and veered off the road, onto the footpath, running over 18 people who were sleeping there.
While 12 persons died on the spot, three of the eight injured died in a nearby hospital, news agency
Thirteen migrant labourers and a year-old-girl from Rajasthan who were sleeping by the roadside in Gujarat s Surat district were among 15 dead after a dumper truck ran over them on Tuesday, police said. Those killed include eight women and a migrant worker from Madhya Pradesh, police said. While 12 of them died on the spot, three died during treatment at a hospital, police added.
Except for the 19-year-old worker from Madhya Pradesh, all the other deceased were from villages in Banswara district in south Rajasthan, police said. The tragedy took place near Kosamba village, around 60 km from Surat, police said. The truck driver, who apparently lost control over the vehicle after hitting a sugarcane laden tractor, has been booked under sections of the IPC and Motor Vehicles Act, police said.
15 labourers killed, 6 injured after truck runs over them in Gujarat's Surat - . The labourers were sleeping near the road when the tragic incident happened at Kosamba in the Surat district.