A bus rammed into a cement-laden truck amid fog in Mukerian sub division of Hoshiarpur district on Wednesday morning, leaving three police personnel dead and 13 others injured, police said.
The bus, carrying 30 policemen, was going from the Punjab Armed Police (PAP) headquarters in Jalandhar to Gurdaspur when the accident took place around 7am near Emma Mangat in Mukerian, 54km from Hoshiarpur.
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Hoshiarpur senior superintendent of police Surendra Lamba, who visited the accident site, sad the deceased have been identified as assistant sub-inspector Hardev Singh, senior constable Gurpreet Singh, who was the bus driver, and woman constable Shalu Rana.
Their bodies have been kept at the mortuary of the Mukerian civil hospital.
The injured were admitted to civil hospitals in Dasuya and Mukerian.
Chief minister Bhagwant Mann has expressed grief at the loss of lives of three Punjab Police personnel in the accident and announced a grant of ₹2 crore to the kin of each victim. ₹1 crore would be given as ex gratia, while the rest of the amount would be paid as insurance.
{{/usCountry}}Chief minister Bhagwant Mann has expressed grief at the loss of lives of three Punjab Police personnel in the accident and announced a grant of ₹2 crore to the kin of each victim. ₹1 crore would be given as ex gratia, while the rest of the amount would be paid as insurance.
{{/usCountry}}“Punjab Police are our honour and we stand with the families of our bravehearts,” Mann tweeted.