Six Killed, 7 Injured as Truck Overturns in Odisha

At least six labourers were killed, and seven others sustained injuries after a cement-laden truck in which they were travelling overturned on a ghat road in Odisha’s Malkangiri district on Saturday, police said.

The labourers were trapped under cement bags and had to be extricated by the police and local residents (Twitter/video screengrab)

Malkangiri superintendent of police (SP) Nitesh Wadhwani said the truck laden with cement and iron rods with 13 labourers on board was on its way to the Jodamba area in Swabhiman Anchala when it overturned at a ghat road in Hantalaguda.