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Phagwara, June 22
Sixteen persons were injured, some of them seriously, in two road accidents in the district, the police said on Friday.
In the first accident, six persons of a family sustained injuries when a car hit their auto-rickshaw on the Phagwara-Hoshiarpur road last night.
Besides them, the auto driver and a woman travelling in the car were injured.
The six were returning after paying their obeisance at a shrine at Sagowal Kadiana village.
While four persons with serious injuries were hospitalised here, other four with minor injuries were discharged after first aid.
The car driver Harminder Singh was booked in the case.
In the second accident, a mini-bus overturned after one of its tyres burst near Lakhpur village, resulting in injuries to eight passengers. The bus was going from Phagwara to Ispur when the accident took place.
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