Madhya Pradesh: 24-year-old injured in Khajuri crash dies in hospital

BHOPAL: In first case of death in road accident of migrant worker reported in the city, a 24-year-old youth, who was going from Mumbai to his native town in Jaunpur district of UP by hired taxi and was injured after the taxi overturned in

Khajuri locality

after a tyre exploded on Indore highway on Saturday, died while undergoing treatment at a

private hospital

on Monday. Khajuri police have registered a case and started investigations.


Khajuri SHO SI LD Mishra said that the

deceased Prince Singh

, 24, hailed from Jaunpur district in UP and worked as a security guard supervisor in Mumbai. He along with his brother-inlaw Suraj Singh, 24, wife, sister, mother, elder brother and four children was going to Jaunpur for which they had hired two taxies.

Prince, Suraj and prince’s sister along with two

minor boys

were in one car while his elder brother, wife and mother along with two children were in other car. When they reached at Barkheda Bondar village on Indore highway in Khajuri area the tyre of one of the cars exploded and the driver lost control over it.

The car ran into the pit beside the road and overturned. Prince and Suraj sustained severe injuries while his sister and two minor boys sitting on back seat escaped with minor bruises. Dial-100 FRV from Khajuri police station reached the spot immediately and rushed the two injured men to hospital where Prince died while undergoing treatment on Monday afternoon. He had severe injuries in head and back and could not recover.