To save the animal, the driver slammed on the brakes but in the process, the pickup truck overturned, leaving 31 persons injured, said Piploda police station in-charge R S Barde
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An elderly woman and a 15-year-old girl died and 29 others were injured when a pickup truck carrying farm labourers overturned in the Ratlam district of Madhya Pradesh, an official said on Friday.
The driver of the commercial vehicle lost control after a buffalo suddenly entered a road near Lambakhora village on Thursday night, said the official.
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To save the animal, the driver slammed on the brakes but in the process, the pickup truck overturned, leaving 31 persons injured, said Piploda police station in-charge R S Barde.
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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.
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