2 killed, 10 injured after Chevrolet Cruze rams into cars, crowd in Amritsar

Those dead are Vandana Paytal and Ranjeet Kaur. A child, who is unidentified, is critical.

In a tragic mishap, two people were killed and around a dozen after the driver of a Chevrolet Cruze lost control, hitting an Esteem and an i-20 before ramming into the crowd that had come to see the annual mela Baba Darshan Singh in Ghanupur Kale village of Amritsar on national highway-1.

Damaged Chevrolet Cruze car after the accident at Ghanupru Kala village, near Sada Pind, in Amritsar on Sunday. (Gurpreet Singh/HT Photo)

Those dead are Vandana Paytal and Ranjeet Kaur. A child, who is unidentified, is critical.

The driver of the Cruze has been taken to the Chhehertta police station.

The details of the accident were not clear till the filing of the report.

DCP Jagmohan Singh said, “Preliminary details are that an uncontrolled car hit vehicles and later entered a gathering. We are verfying the names of the injured.”