NE NEWS SERVICE
AHMEDABAD, JAN 24
Four persons were killed in two separate accidents on Sunday in Devbhumi Dwarka district and on Bhavnagar-Ahmedabad Highway in Gujarat, police said.
In the first incident, two unidentified men were killed on the spot when their SUV, heading towards Bhavnagar, was hit by a truck near Moti Baru village in Ahmedabad’s Dholka taluka, said Koth police station sub-inspector HR Patel.
Three people in the SUV were injured in the incident and the driver of the truck, which overturned on impact, has been detained, he added.
In the second accident, which took place later in the day in Devbhumi Dwarka, a couple from Bhanwad traveling on a scooter was hit by a speeding pick-up truck near Manja village, an official said.
Ketan Parmar (39) and his wife Jyoti (37) died on the spot and the pick-up driver fled from the spot, the Khambhalia police station official said.