CHANDIGARH, July 1: Four pilgrims from Rajasthan, including two women, were killed and seven others injured after a tempo-traveller rammed a stationary truck on the Bathinda-Dabwali highway in Punjab’s Bathinda district on Wednesday morning, police said.
The incident occurred near Jodhpur Romana village when a group of devotees from Rajasthan’s Barmer were on their way to the Amarnath cave shrine in J-K’s Anantnag district for the annual pilgrimage beginning July 3, police said.
The injured were rushed to the AIIMS Bathinda, while the bodies of the four deceased have been shifted to the mortuary of the civil hospital in the town, a police officer said.
Further details are awaited. (PTI)
