Nine killed in Rajasthan road accident

At least nine persons, including six women, were killed and 22 injured when a bus overturned near Udaipur in Rajasthan on Saturday morning, police said.

The incident took place around 9 a.m. when the bus enroute Haridwara from Ahmedabad overturned on the Ahmedabad-Udaipur highway, a senior police officer told IANS over the phone.

Five persons died on the spot while four others succumbed to their injuries in a hospital, the officer said.

The injured have been admitted to a nearby hospital. Few of them are in critical condition, the officer said.

--IANS

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