People gather at the accident site in Gwalior. Reuters
Gwalior, March 23
Twelve women and a man were killed after the auto-rickshaw they were travelling in collided with a speeding bus in Old Chawni area of Gwalior in Madhya Pradesh on Tuesday.
The accident took place around 5 am on the Gwalior-Morena road when the bus driver apparently tried to avoid hitting a person on the road, said state Transport Minister Govind Singh Rajput.
The women, who worked as cooks at an ‘anganwadi kendra’ in Stone Park area, were returning home after work, Gwalior Collector Kaushlendra Vikram Singh said. They were supposed to travel in two auto-rickshaws, but one of them was out of order, so they crammed into one vehicle, he said. While eight women and the auto-rickshaw driver died on the spot, the others succumbed to injuries in a hospital. — PTI
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