Bhopal: Six farm labourers were killed and 24 others sustained injuries when their van was hit by a speeding tanker in Madhya Pradesh’s Dhar district in the early hours of today.
Dhar Additional Collector Shailendra Solanki said out of the 24 injured persons, the condition of nine was serious.
The accident took place on Indore-Ahmedabad road near Chiklya Fata under Tirla police station limits, at around 3 am when the labourers were returning to Tanda village after working in an agricultural field.
According to Solanki, one of the tyres of their pick-up van got punctured and the driver was replacing it when the speeding tanker hit the vehicle from behind.
“Six labourers were killed and 24 others were injured. The condition of nine of them was serious,” he added.
The injured persons were admitted in Tirla and Dhar district hospitals, Solanki said.