Five killed in accident

Published June 14, 2006

TIMERGARAH, June 13: Five persons were killed and as many received serious injuries when a passenger coaster rammed into a truck here at Katkala on Monday evening.

Witnesses said a speedy coaster went out of control of the driver on the highway. The coaster collided with a truck. All those killed were travelling on the coaster.

BOY KILLED: A girl killed a boy to save her honour as, she said, he had entered her house. The girl, Hashmat, herself reached the Och police station with a Kalashnikov.—Correspondent

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