2 killed as truck overturns on an eatery in Alipurduar
Two people were killed after a truck overturned on a roadside eatery in West Bengal’s Alipurduar district on Tuesday, police said.
They said the incident happened on Asian Highway-48 at Choupathi in the Madarihat police station area.
A 12-wheeler truck, which was transporting urea from Assam to Siliguri, overturned on the eatery after the driver lost control of the vehicle, police said.
The deceased were identified as Purna Arya, 48, and Rajkumar Barman, 55. They were at the eatery during the accident.
The bodies were recovered after the truck was removed with the help of five cranes, police said.