Kolkata, Jul 8 (UNI) At least three people were killed, including a
mother and her son, and some 11 people sustained wounds of various degrees, when a tractor in which the members of an adivasi family were returning home from a wedding ceremony was hit by a goods laden truck at Memari in East Bardhaman early on Thursday, police said.
The injured people have been taken to Anamoy hospital in that district by local people and highway traffic policemen.
The accident happened on Kalna-Debpur Road under Memari police station, which took three lives, when the tractor turned turtle in the impact of head-on-collision with the truck, throwing all the occupants on the metal road.
While the mom died on the spot, her son and the third died at the hospital.
Police arrested both the drivers of the tractor and truck and
confiscated the vehicles.
In the city a bus driver was found dead in his parked vehicle at
Dhakuria in south Kolkata early on Thursday.
The deceased, identified as Ranjit Das, allegedly committed suicide with help of rope in the vehicle.
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