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Nitish Kumar orders enquiry into a truck accident in Bihar
Tue, 01 Jan 2008
ANI
Patna, Aug 3 (ANI): Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today ordered an enquiry into last night's truck accident in which thirty-eight farm labourers were killed and 15 injured.
He announced an ex-gratia of one-lakh rupees each to the next of kin of the deceased.
According to the police, the mishap occurred when an overloaded truck carrying them, plunged into a river at Ghongsa village in Bihar's Lakhisarai district around 9.
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15 pm on Saturday.
The victims were returning home to Mansi in Khagaria district after paddy plantation.
The injured, some of them in serious conditions, have been admitted to a Government hospital at Sikandra. The death toll could rise as ten of the injured are in a critical condition. (ANI)
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