Marriage Party Tragedy: 20 killed as truck falls off Sone River bridge in Madhya Pradesh

Mangalore Today News Network

Bhopal, Apr 18, 2018 :  At least 20 members of a marriage party were killed when a mini-truck carrying them fell off a bridge over the Sone river in Sidhi district of Madhya Pradesh Tuesday night, officials said.

 

They said that the casualties might go up as many more people were trapped inside the vehicle.

Twenty people are killed and many are injured, Sidhi District Collector Dilip Kumar told PTI.

The injured were admitted to the district hospital.

Expressing deep sorrow over the accident, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan announced an assistance of Rs. 2 lakh each to the kin of the deceased and Rs. 50,000 each to the injured, the district collector said.

The mini-truck fell off the Jogdaha bridge near Amelia in Bahri police station area of the district, he said.

The vehicle fell about 60-70-foot down onto the dry river bed. Efforts were on to pull out the truck.



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