JAIPUR: Four youngsters travelling in a truck were killed in an accident along the Jodhpur-Pali national highway near Mandiya village on Wednesday.
The truck was coming from Jodhpur and rammed into a trailer parked at Nagaur RTO late at night on Wednesday. The deceased are Rajuram (22), Ramchandra Singh (25), both residents of Jodhpur and Rajaram (30) and another 22-year-old man hailing from Nagaur. All of them died on the spot.
Sources said Sadar police who rushed to the spot had to carry out a three-hour-long operation to take out the victims from the trailer. Following the accident, the national highway was jammed till noon.
"We have cleared the road. Meanwhile, relatives of the deceased have been informed and postmortem will be conducted only after their arrival. We have kept bodies in the mortuary," a police officer said.
In the recent past, the Jodhpur-Pali highway has seen several road accidents. In a report released by the Union ministry of roads and surface transport, the highway is mentioned prominently for the high number of accidents.
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