According to the police report, six people lost their lives, and around a dozen were injured after a truck overturned on a jeep in an accident in Dausa district, Rajasthan, on Tuesday.
The accident took place at Birsana crossing on the Mahwa-Mandawar highway, which falls under the jurisdiction of the Mandawar police station area. The police said that the truck was loaded with cold drinks. Police personnel from Mahwa and Mandawar police stations reached the spot and carried out the rescue operation, along with the locals.
The bodies of the deceased are transferred to the mortuary of the sub-district hospital in Mahwa, and those who are injured are undergoing treatment at Mandawar and Mahwa hospitals, the police said. Three of them have been referred to Jaipur, they added. Jaipur Rural MP Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore expressed his grief over the incident on microblogging site X (formerly Twitter). “Very sad information was received about the untimely death of people in the road accident in Mandawar of Dausa district. May God give peace to the departed souls. My thoughts are with the bereaved families in this hour of immense pain. I wish speedy recovery of those injured in the accident,” read a rough translation of his post.
