New Delhi: Three elderly women from Mansa district in Punjab were run over by a truck at the farmers’ protest site on the Tikri-Bahadurgarh border on Thursday morning.
Two other women were injured. One of them has been referred to the PGI, Rohtak.
The deceased were identified as Chhinder Kaur, Amarjeet Kaur and Gurmel Kaur. They had been participating in the farmers’ protest for the past few days.
Police said that incident took place at 5.45 am when the women were sitting on a divider on the Jhajjar road waiting for an auto-rickshaw to go to railway station at Bahadurgarh to catch the train for Mansa.
Meanwhile, dumper driver fled from the spot.