Tourist van from Maha Kumbh collides with truck in Gujarat; four dead, six injured

Dahod: A traveller van carrying pilgrims from the Maha Kumbh in Prayagraj collided with a stationary truck in Limkheda early Saturday morning, killing four people and injuring six others.

The accident occurred on the Indore-Ahmedabad Highway at around 2:15 am when a traveller van with license plate number GJ-05-CW-2699, carrying 10 devotees, rammed into a truck with license plate number UP-53-FT-0167, which was parked on the side of the road. The collision led to the on-the-spot death of two people from Ankleshwar and two others from Dholka. Six people who were injured in the accident were rushed to Dahod Civil Hospital and later referred to Zydus Hospital in the city, where they are undergoing treatment.

The deceased have been identified as Devraj Nakum (49) and his wife Jasuba (47) from Ankleshwar, along with Sidhraj Dabhi (32) and Ramesh Goswami (47) from Dholka. Their bodies are undergoing postmortem in Limkheda.

The injured persons have been identified as Jaipalsinh Nakum (25), Savitaben Patel (63), and Keshavlal Patel (65), all residents of Sainath Residency in Ankleshwar. Jagatsinh Nakum (50) from Nani Boru, Dholka, and Digvijaysinh Rathod, the driver from Surat, were also among those injured in the accident.