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Muzaffarnagar: A farmer was killed and another grievously injured after their tractor collided with a truck on the Delhi-Pauri highway, police said on Friday.
The deceased is identified as Sumit. His friend Narendra has been admitted to a hospital, police said.
They were transporting sugarcane to a mill in Tikola when a truck rammed into their tractor. As a result, the tractor’s trolley, loaded with sugarcane, fell on them and they collapsed. The accident took place under Ramraj police station limits on Thursday evening, they said.
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Sumit’s body has been sent for postmortem, while the truck driver has escaped, police said. Traffic on the highway briefly came to a standstill following the accident, police said.
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