ROHTAK: Three MBBS students got burnt alive in a road accident on Wednesday night in Sonipat after their hatchback car collided with a cement barricade and caught fire. Three others in car also sustained burn injuries.
The deceased have been identified as Pulkit of Narnaul, Sandesh of Rewari and Rohit of Gurgaon. The three other MBBS students who were travelling in the same car — Ankit, Narbir and Sombir — sustained burn injuries in the tragic accident. They are under treatment at PGIMS Rohtak, said Sonipat police.
All the occupants of the ill-fated car were studying at PGIMS Rohtak.
They were travelling from Rohtak to Haridwar on Wednesday night on Jhajjar-Meerut highway, when the accident occurred. The road was closed by placing cemented barricades on the highway as the work was underway. Going at high speed, the car of victims rammed directly into the barricades.
The impact of the accident was such that the car rose to the top of one of a cement barriers and got engulfed in fire immediately.
Rai police station incharge Davinder said the three victims died on the spot.
The bodies of the deceased were kept in the Sonipat civil hospital.
