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Multiple Highway Accidents, Including Bihar STF Vehicle Overturn, Claim at Least 13 Lives

Authorities ordered compensation after launching probes into crashes on the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway, rural highways that have exposed safety shortcomings.

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A team is being sent from Bihar to Ratlam to bring back the bodies of the deceased

Overview

  • Two Bihar STF personnel—Sub-Inspector Mukund Murari and Constable Vikas Kumar—died when their Scorpio, en route from Gaya to Gandhidham to apprehend a suspect, overturned on the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway near Ratlam; four colleagues were injured and referred to hospitals in Ratlam and Indore.
  • At least six people, including four children, were killed and more than 15 injured in two separate accidents in Jharkhand’s Palamu and Latehar districts, one involving a wedding procession van and another a high-speed passenger car overturn.
  • In Madhya Pradesh’s Damoh-Chhatarpur State Highway crash, a government-owned SUV collided with a motorcycle, instantly killing three riders, and authorities have charged the driver with negligent driving.
  • A head-on collision between two motorcycles near Sundarpur village in Tikamgarh district left two dead and two injured, with local police registering inquiries into the cause.
  • Senior officers have been dispatched to oversee victim care and investigations, and state governments announced ex-gratia payments as calls intensify for road safety reforms.