3 on-foot pilgrims including a woman devotee dead, 5 injured in road mishap in North Gujarat

Himmatnagar: Three on-foot pilgrims including a woman were crushed to death while five others injured when a speeding truck hit them on Ahmedabad-Himmatnagar highway near Kaatvad Patia under Pratij taluka in the wee hours today.

Police said that a group of on-foot pilgrims were coming to local Umiya mata temple in Poglu village of Prantij from Shamlaji in Aravalli district.

A speeding truck lost balance and hit them and also their chariot and a tractor which were accompanying the on-foot pilgrims.

Two of them including a woman devotee died on the spot while one succumbed in the hospital.

Five others were under treatment in the civil hospital at Himmatnagar.

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