Five people, including a minor, were killed and 12 others injured when a pickup van ferrying labourers rammed into a tree in Gujarat’s Mehsana district on Wednesday, police said.
About 20 labourers were travelling in the van when the driver lost control of the vehicle and rammed into a tree near Kheralu on Malekpur-Siddhpur road around 3 a.m., an official from Kheralu police station said. The injured were taken to hospitals in Vadnagar and Kheralu.
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