Ludhiana: A girl aged 10 died, while her maternal grandparents were injured when a gravel-laden tipper truck overturned on their hut near Machhiwara. Fog had blinded the driver.
Sulekha of Gari Tarkhana near Machhiwara was the victim, while her grandparents are Bablu and Ramaiah Devi. The tipper was headed to the Gadhi bridge on the Sirhind Canal from Machhiwara around 10am when it first hit a tree in the fog and then overturned on the roadside hut, burying the sleeping poor family in gravel.
In 20 minutes, the migrant workers from the slum pulled out Ramaiya Devi and Bablu and moved them to the Samrala civil hospital, while Sulekha suffocated to death.