LUCKNOW: Four labourers were killed while others suffered injuries after a concrete mixing machine they were traveling overturned and they came under it.
The incident took place in Jaunpur district on Sunday night.
Police said the labourers were returning home laying on the roof at a construction site. On the way the driver of the vehicle took a turn at Mani Khurd road in the area and the vehicle overturned. The tractor driver lost control and both the tractor and the machine overturned and fell into a gorge leading to the death of three labourers and the cyclist.
Of the four victims, three were labourers sitting atop the concrete mixer and the fourth one was a cyclist passing by the machine as it overturned, due to which Shankar, Chintelal and Harishchandra Gautam, residents of Abbopur, who were sitting atop and cyclist Tuntun Prajapati, died on the spot, said Shriprakash Kumar, SHO, Khetasari. A passer-by Ram Shakal Bind got injured.
