A 52-year-old policeman was killed after being hit by a tanker on Gunnaur-Narora road here, police said today.
Lajpat Singh, head constable with Gunnaur police station, had signalled the tanker to stop for checking last night and it hit the cop leading to his death, ASP Kamlesh Dixit said.
Singh was on patrol duty at the Narora bridge.
The body has been sent for postmortem and the cleaner of the tanker has been arrested.
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12 persons were arrested in connection with the
incident, police said.
One firearm and two cartridges were also seized from them.
