Bilaspur, Jun 21 (PTI) Three persons were killed and two others injured after the car they were travelling in hit a roadside boundary wall in Bilaspur district of Chhattisgarh on Saturday, police said.
The accident took place around 2.30 pm near Binauri village under the Sakri police station limits when the victims were returning from Bilaspur after the work of drilling a borewell, an official said.
One of the occupants, who was in the driving seat, lost control over the vehicle and hit a roadside precast boundary wall. The impact of the collision was such that five pillars of the wall were uprooted from the ground, while the right side door of the car broke and fell off, he said.
Three of them, identified as Suresh Vasudev (32), Pawan Ratre (40) and Vijay Rajput (28), died on the spot, while two others - Ramlal Yadav alias Monu (30) and Jayant Vaishnav - suffered injuries, he said, adding that they hailed from Kathakoni and nearby villages.
After being alerted, the police reached the spot and sent the injured to the Chhattisgarh Institute of Medical Sciences (CIMS) Hospital in Bilaspur city for treatment, he said.
The bodies were sent for post-mortem, the official said.