Bengal: Six killed in Trekker-dumper collision in Murshidabad Distt
22-Jun-2025 10:43 PM 1758
Kolkata, June 22 (Reporter) At least six people were killed, of them four women and a child, and over dozen sustained multiple wounds in a head-on collision between a Trekker and a dumper in West Bengal's Murshidabad district on Sunday, official sources said. All the victims were occupants of the Trekker, who were returning home after having a holy dip at a water body in Birbhum's Sainthia, police said. The mishap occurred at Gokarna village on Kandi-Baharampur State Highway when the Trekker, with some 22 people on board including the driver, met with the accident. The impact of the collision was so severe that the four-wheel Trekker vehicle turned into a mangle of steel. The injured have been admitted to the Murshidabad Medical College and Hospital with critical wounds of several people, all the residents of Rukunpur village under Harihar police station. The victims had hired the Trekker early this morning and travelled to Ahmedpur under Sainthia in Birbhum district for taking holy bath there. The dead include four women, a child and the driver. The driver of the dumper and his assistant abandoned the heavy loaded vehicle on the road and fled...////...
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