Escaping from police custody, prisoner killed in accident in Haryana

A prisoner, who had escaped from police custody and was fleeing in a car after threatening its owner, was killed when a truck rammed into their vehicle on Ambala Jagadhri highway, police said.

A prisoner, who had escaped from police custody and was fleeing in a car after threatening its owner, was killed when a truck rammed into their vehicle on Ambala Jagadhri highway, police said.

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Gurjinder Singh, who was lodged in Nawanshahr jail in Punjab, died on the spot while the car owner Pardeep succumbed to his injuries at PGIMER in Chandigarh.

Singh had escaped from police custody when the cops were taking him to a court in connection with a case yesterday morning. Singh later stopped a car and forced Pardeep Kumar, a resident of Balachaur, to take him towards Haryana.

When they were crossing village Saha close to Ambala Cantt late last night their car rammed into the truck. Nawanshahr police in Punjab have been informed. The bodies of the two were kept in a mortuary at local civil hospital.