The Madhya Pradesh police said that a woman and her newborn died after the ambulance ferrying them to their native village collided with a tree in Narmadapuram district.
Post-delivery journey turned tragic
According to PTI, the woman has been identified as Anjali Rajput who had delivered a baby on June 26. She was returning to her native place along with her two relatives in an ambulance post-delivery. The ambulance collided with a tree.
Piparia police station in-charge said that three people were killed in the incident. Anjali was returning to Sarra Kishore village.
3 dead in road accident in Shimla
“The driver lost control of the ambulance and it hit a mango tree. Anjali, her son, and another woman died. The ambulance driver and one more woman have been injured,” PTI quoted the official as saying.
In a separate incident, Three people died in a road accident near Jalog, Shimla, amid continuous heavy rains in Himachal Pradesh on Monday.
Police personnel rushed to the spot
According to the Shimla Disaster Management Authority, the vehicle met with an accident about four kilometres ahead of Jalog in Sub Tehsil Jalog. Patwari of the Ogli Gram Panchayat and police personnel rushed to the spot of the accident.
Meanwhile, Shimla Disaster Management Authority reported a cloudburst last night in village Sikaseri in Sarpara Gram Panchayat, Rampur in which a room, kitchen, a warehouse, a cow shed along with a cow and two calves owned by Rajender Kumar, and a cow along with shed owned by Vinod Kumar and Gopal Singh each were washed away. No loss of human life reported.
DTRs will be restored
According to the Disaster Management Authority, 34 Distribution Transformers (DTRs) are down, hampering the electricity supply in Shimla. The DTRs will be restored by Monday evening. Also, the water supply has been affected due to the cloudburst.
