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Amritsar/Bathinda, May 21
As many as 11 persons were killed and 27 others injured in two accidents in Amritsar and Bathinda districts of Punjab on Sunday.
Seven persons, including three women, were killed and nine others injured when an SUV hit a stationary auto-rickshaw and a car at Umranangal bypass near Beas, 35 km from Amritsar.
The incident occurred when the SUV, heading towards Amritsar from Delhi, rammed into the three-wheeler and the car which were parked on the national highway.
Due to a blind U-turn, the driver of SUV could not see the vehicles parked near the roadside dhaba and rammed into them, police said.
The SUV dragged the auto-rickshaw and the car several feet away, they said.
Among the occupants of the three-wheeler and the car, seven were killed while nine sustained injuries in the accident, police said.
The passengers, who were on their way to the Golden Temple to pay their obeisance there from Nangal Saroa and Nasrala villages of Hoshiarpur district, had halted at the dhaba to buy refreshments, they said.
The deceased have been identified as couple Komalpreet Kaur and Avatr Singh, Kamalpreet Kaur, Sewa Singh, Sarbjit Kaur and Harbhajan Singh. The identity of the seventh is yet to be ascertained.
Among the injured, a one-and-half-year-old baby was rushed to a hospital in a critical condition, police said.
In another accident, four persons were killed and 18 seriously injured after a head-on collision between a PRTC bus and a canter at Jethuke village near Rampura Phul in Bathinda district in the morning.
The collision was so severe that both vehicles were badly damaged.
Three persons died on the spot, while one succumbed at the hospital in Rampura Phul, the police said. They have registered a case.
The bus of Pepsu Roadways Transport Corporation was travelling to Chintpurni in Himachal Pradesh from Bathinda.
As the bus reached near Jethuke village it had a head-on collision with the Canter. — With agency inputs
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