Oil tanker overturns on NH6, traffic disrupted, scribe injured

An oil tanker overturned on NH6 in Uluberia in West Bengal's Howrah district causing an oil spill which disrupted traffic and left a local journalist, reporting from the spot, injured.
Police sources said that the tanker filled with rapeseed oil was on way to Dhulagar truck terminal in Howrah from Haldia when it hit a road bump near Khalisari under Uluberia ps and overturned.
Senior officers of the traffic department arrived at the spot. A crane was requisitioned to lift the tanker but it rolled into a wayside ditch, police said.
Villagers rushed to retrieve the oil with buckets and other utensils and traffic came to a halt for over two hours from 5 pm, the sources said.

A journalist of a local daily, Anjan Ranjit (28) who rushed to the spot on his motorbike, was injured as his two-wheeler skidded on the oil, the sources said.
He was admitted to Uluberia general hospital where he was undergoing treatment for head injuries, hospital sources said.
Meanwhile, the truck was lifted from the ditch and put back on the road but the driver and helper were absconding, police said.