Vehicle carrying field labourers flips in Ratlam area of MP, leaving two dead and 29 wounded

An elderly woman and a 15-year-old girl were killed, and 29 others were injured, when a pickup truck carrying farm labourers overturned in Madhya Pradesh’s Ratlam district on Friday, according to an official.

According to the official, the driver of the commercial vehicle lost control after a buffalo suddenly entered a road near Lambakhora village on Thursday night.

The driver slammed on the brakes to save the animal, but the pickup truck overturned, injuring 31 people, according to Piploda police station in-charge R S Barde.

Of those wounded, a teenage girl succumbed to her injuries on the way to the Ratlam district hospital, while a 60-year-old woman died during treatment.

Seventeen of the injured were taken to the district hospital and the rest were treated at the medical facility in Sarvan village, he said.