Nagpur, Mar 3 (UNI) Five people, including a child, were killed and eight others injured, three of them seriously, when they were crushed under the cement bags loaded on the truck that they were travelling in after it overturned while negotiating a sharp bend in the road in Wardha district of Maharashtra today.

Sub-Inspector A H Chormore of Pulgaon police station in the district told UNI on telephone that all the victims, working as construction labourers at Pimpalzari dam in the district, were from Raipur in the neighbouring Chhattisgarh.

Mr Chormore said the truck was carrying cement bags from a nearby warehouse to the construction site, when it flipped over several times after veering out of control on the turning at village Rampur Shivar, about 15 km from Pulgaon, this afternoon.

The cement bags, loaded on the truck, were thrown out, crushing those travelling on the vehicle and killing five of them on the spot, he said.

The victims have been identified as Durgesh Tuklaha Shahu (11) from Gadade, Ramadhar Bahulrao Jaiswal (35) from Rikari, Duklaji Kanvasaitu Sahu (45) from Kamvatu, Kamleshwar Bhagirathi Satnami (35) from Bhandar and Deendayal Charan Satnami (4) from Lavan (all in district Raipur, Chhattisgarh), the PSI said.

The driver of the vehicle, Sunil Wadgude (32), from Seloo in Wardha district, was among those injured. All the injured have been admitted to a hospital in Sewagram in the district, he added.

UNI