Four of family killed as car rams into tree

Tribune News Service

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Muktsar, March 18

Four persons of a family, including two women and a child, died in a road accident at Bhallaiana village on the Muktsar-Bathinda highway today morning.

The victims were reportedly coming to Muktsar to see a doctor, when the car, in which they were travelling, collided with a roadside tree. The driver, a relative of the victims, suffered injuries. He was admitted to the Civil Hospital at Gidderbaha.

Sources said Satnam Singh, his wife Rani Kaur of Bhama Badi village in Sangrur, sister Raghubir Kaur and her son Sukhjot Singh, alias Bunty, of Attar Singhwala village in Barnala district, died on the spot. Rajinder Singh, a cousin of Satnam Singh, from Bhaini Mehraj, was driving the car.

Sources informed the car was moving at a fast pace, and the driver lost control at a turn, which caused the fatal mishap. The driver was pulled out from the vehicle after cutting its roof, they claimed.

Sources said a few minutes before the mishap, the car had stopped at a filling station. DSP Narinder Singh said they had started investigation.