Heavy loaded truck overturns, many people killed

Gujarat, May 19: Here is a ghastly incident has occurred while Nineteen people were killed and seven injured after a truck carrying heavy cement bags in which they were traveling overturned on Bhavnagar-Ahmedabad highway near Bavalyali village in Bhavnagar on today morning.

Reportedly, the truck fell into a ditch after the truck overturned.

"19 persons including 12 women, three teenagers, and four men were killed when the truck coming from Pipavav Port overturned on (the) Ahmedabad-Dholera highway," police superintendent R. V. Asari told AFP.

"All the deceased were laborers going to work in fields in Anand district. All were buried under the cement bags after the truck overturned", he added.

The injured passengers were shifted to a government hospital in Bavayali village and the bodies of the deceased will be sent for an autopsy shortly.

The driver fled the spot after the accident occured.

More details are awaited.