Barasat (WB): Five persons were killed
and three others injured when a car they were travelling in
collided head-on with a truck in North 24 Parganas district
today, police said.
The incident took place this evening at Deganga, when
the vehicle, carrying eight people, was travelling to Haroa
from Baduria, the police said.
The occupants of the vehicle were going there to visit
a fair, they said.
While three persons died on the spot, two other
passengers succumbed to their injuries at a hospital,
Superintendent of Police of North 24 Parganas P Sudhakar said.
The injured were admitted to a hospital in Barasat,
he said.
The truck was seized but the driver fled, he added.
PTI
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