3 children among 8 killed in car-truck collision in Udaipur

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Jaipur, October 13: Eight people, including three children, were killed and three others injured on Saturday when a car they were travelling in collided with a truck in Rajasthan’s Udaipur district, police said.

The passengers travelling in the car were going for a picnic from Salumbar town to Udaipur city when the accident happened near Khairad area, they said.

Three students—Lakshya Yadav (4), Gauri Chaudhary (7), Upendra Singh (5)— nd their teachers Manisha Goswami (28), Saroj Yadav (30), Monika Khateek (22), Geeta Ladauti and the owner of the school they taught, Santosh Rajput, died in the accident.
Two more children and a teacher were injured in the accident, SHO of Salumbar police station Shailendra Singh said.

The injured have been admitted to a hospital in Udaipur and post-mortem of the bodies was under way, the police said. PTI