Man, son killed as dumper overturns in Rajsamand district of Rajasthan

Jaipur, May 28

A man and his minor son were killed after a dumper overturned on them during road repairing work in Nathdwara town of Rajsamand district of Rajasthan, police said on Monday.

Nitesh Soni (35) and son Yansh (8) had gone to buy ice-cream from a roadside vendor near the Nathdwara Temple where road repairing was going on.

They were standing near the dumper which overturned on Sunday night, assistant sub-inspector of Nathdwara police station Tulsi Ram said.

The ASI said the dumper was there to offload gravel for repairing work and it was stationed on the edge of a pit. It suddenly overturned trapping the man and his son. The bodies have been handed over to the family. PTI