Jaipur-Ajmer highway truck fire: Death toll rises to 14; Sachin Pilot meets victims at SMS hospitals
The HinduThe death toll in the deadly tanker-truck collision and massive fire on Bhankrota on the Jaipur-Ajmer highway increased to 14 on Saturday, with three more persons succumbing to burn injuries. Twenty-six patients were undergoing treatment in the burn ward at the Sawai Man Singh Government Hospital here, and several of them were under critical care, the hospital’s Medical Superintendent Sushil Bhati said. LPG tanker crash on Jaipur-Ajmer highway: 5 dead, 37 injured Police restored traffic movement on the National Highway 48, connecting Jaipur to Ajmer on Friday night after removing the vehicles engulfed in the blaze. Senior Congress leader and former Deputy Chief Minister Sachin Pilot, who met some of the injured persons at the SMSGH on Saturday, sought an investigation to find out the reasons behind the accident.