4 killed as car rams into tree on Hoshiarpur-Chandigarh road

Four persons were killed, while another was injured after a car rammed into a tree on the Hoshiarpur-Chandigarh road, near Mahilpur in Punjab, the police said today.

"The accident took place past midnight. The victims had stopped their vehicle at a dhaba near Chabbewal, close to Hoshiarpur, to have dinner. Soon after they resumed their journey, the accident occurred as the driver lost control of the vehicle, which rammed into a tree near Mahilpur," Mahilpur Station House Officer (SHO) Baljit Singh told PTI over phone.

He said there was a woman among those killed in the incident and added that the injured person was hospitalised at Ludhiana.