A few Indian Army jawans sustained minor injuries when the bus they were travelling in was hit by a truck at Dharala More near Panagarh, under the Budbud police station.
The jawans were travelling from the Burdwan side when a truck driver suddenly applied brakes on national highway 19. Although the driver of the army bus also applied brakes, the vehicle still collided with the truck. A container truck following behind then crashed into the army bus, and another army bus following the container truck also hit it from behind.
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The injured jawans were rescued and taken to hospital. The accident led to a traffic jam along the Burdwan to Asansol stretch of NH-19. As six-lane laying work is ongoing on the highway, the road conditions are poor, and accidents have become a regular occurrence.
Budbud Police have seized the truck.
In a separate incident in Kanksa in the early hours today, a speeding truck collided with another truck. Both the driver and the helper were trapped inside and killed. Kanksa police recovered the bodies after cutting through the cabin.