One killed, 18 injured as mini-truck overturns

One person was killed and 10 others were injured when the mini-truck in which they were travelling hit a pillar of a flyover and overturned at Birshibpur in the district today, police said.

A group of folk artists from Kakdwip in South 24 Parganas were travelling in the mini-truck when its front wheel burst and it hit a pillar of the flyover and overturned, the police said.

The injured were first rushed to Uluberia hospital and then shifted to hospital in Kolkata.