Two people died and 12 were injured when a tractor-trailer carrying them overturned near Hanuman Dol on the Betul-Parasia road

Right: Five people were killed and 12 were separately injured ACCIDENTS involving heavy vehicles in Madhya Pradeshfrom Betul district, police said on Sunday.

Two people were killed and 12 injured when a tractor-trailer carrying them overturned near Hanuman Dol on the Betul-Parasia road around 7 am on Sunday, an official said.

Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) Kamla Joshi said the victims were laborers who were returning home to their village from Betul railway station in a tractor cart.

The vehicle overturned, killing two of them, she said, adding that the injured were taken to hospital. The official said the workers had traveled to Betul from KanyakumariTamil Nadu, where they had gone to work in a factory a month ago.

District Collector Narendra Raghuvanshi said the tractor-drawn cart was carrying 21 people, all residents of Bakud and Dulara villages in Ghoradongri tehsil, who had returned from Kanyakumari for the festive season.

He said one of the three seriously injured people was sent to Bhopal for further treatment. In another accident in the district, three people died when a truck hit their two-wheeler on the Betul-Athner road around 11 pm on Saturday, police said.

The accident took place near Bharkawadi village, about 10 km from the district headquarters, said Betul Bazar police station in-charge Anjana Dhurve. A truck carrying fertilizer hit the two-wheeler and the injured men were rushed to hospital where doctors declared them brought dead, she said.

The official said the victims were identified as Vijay (35), Krishna Dhurve (20) and Raghunath Sareyam (38). A case has been registered against the truck driver who fled the spot leaving the vehicle behind, she said.