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Nine labourers from Rajasthan killed in Leh road accident
Leh, Jun 9: Nine people, mostly labourers from Rajasthan were killed in a road accident in this district of Ladakh region in Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday, official sources said on Sunday.
They said a truck from Srinagar to Leh carrying cement and labourers skidded off the road and fell into a deep gorge at Lamayuru on the highway resulting in on the spot death of nine persons, including three minors. The deceased were labourers from Rajasthan, they said.
They said the labourers belong to two families and are residents of Ajmer Sharief of Rajasthan. A massive hunt has been launched to nab the driver of the truck who fled from the spot after the accident. They said some of the deceased were identified as Nandu wife of Baru his son Vinod, Papu son of Jamna ji and his wife Premi two sons Nanda and Puran. Police has registered a case under FIR No FIR no 55/2019 u/s 279, 338, 304-A RPC and taken up investigation, they said.