Three dead in road accidents

Three persons were killed in two accidents today,with scores of injuries reported as well. Two persons were killed and 11 injured when two buses collided head-on in Nawanshahr this morning.

Eyewitnesses said a private bus driving along the Jalandhar side of the road was attempting to overtake a vehicle near Mahalon village when it hit a Punjab Roadways bus approaching from the opposite direction. Manjit Singh,the driver of the private bus,was booked in the case.

Fifty-year-old Makhamal Kaur died and 15 others were seriously injured in a head-on collision between a Tata 407 and Tata 207 today on the Jalandhar-Amritsar Highway,near Ramidi village in Kapurthala district. The 407 collided with the 207 when attempting to overtake another vehicle. The deceased was a resident of Preet Nagar in Jalandhar and was headed to Dera Beas.

Police took three and a half hours to free the 407s driver from the badly damaged vehicle. Thick fog may have played a role in the accident,which snarled traffic on the highway for two hours. Injured parties are being treated at hospitals in the region.

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