INDORE: Four persons, including a woman, were killed and seven critically injured after an MUV crashed when they were taking a suicide-attempt victim to hospital in MP's Jhabua district on Friday night.
Raipuria police station in charge Jaishree Ram Varde said all the victims were residents of Dhar district, headed for Petlawad Civil Hospital. On the winding roads of Bolasa Ghat, around 150km from Indore and barely 15 minutes from destination, the driver lost control of the vehicle and it overturned around 11pm.
Passing motorists alerted police and a patrol squad arrived within minutes, but three victims had died on impact. Eight of the survivors were taken to Petlawad hospital where one of them died.
Two of them were shifted to Dahod in Gujarat when their condition worsened. The other five are in Petlawad.
Police identified the dead as Duru Hatila, Nansig Bhabhor, Parmu Hatila and Rema Bai. Their bodies were handed over to family members after post-mortem examination. Ther vehicle was crushed in the accident.
In a similar accident on Feb 23, four people were killed after their SUV collided with a truck head-on in Khandwa when they were taking a 25-year-old suicide victim to hospital.