Nine injured as Tempo Traveller overturns near jail building on Dindori highway

A Toofan vehicle full of villagers overturned near the jail building on the Jabalpur-Amarkantak national highway in Dindori on Tuesday morning. Munni Bai suffered a broken leg and eight others were injured. All nine injured were taken to the district hospital in ambulances.

Traffic on the highway was held up for some time after the accident. Police reached the spot and had traffic restored.

Injured Seema Bai said about 20 villagers from Khalhe Githouri village in the Mohgaon police station area of Mandla district were travelling to Amarkantak in two Toofan vehicles. A child's tonsure ceremony was to be held at the source of the Narmada river there. All of them had left the village at about 5 am on Tuesday.

A short distance from Dindori, the Toofan vehicle bearing registration number MP20TA0553 reached a culvert near the jail building. After hitting a parked motorcycle there, the vehicle went out of control and overturned.

Munni Bai suffered a fracture in her leg in the accident. Rukmani Nanda, Seema Bai, Phoolkali, Buddh Vishwakarma, Indra Kumar, Phagulal Vishwakarma, Tilak Das Bairagi and one more person suffered injuries to the head and legs.

Assistant Sub-Inspector Sheikh Siraj said all the injured had been taken to the district hospital with the help of ambulances and were undergoing treatment. Police are investigating the cause of the accident.