Truck runs over five sleeping on footpath in northeast Delhi, 3 dead

Three died after a canter truck allegedly ran over five men sleeping on a footpath in the Shastri Park area of northeast Delhi in the early hours of Monday, police said.

The alleged incident occurred at the Tarbuz market near Shastri Park metro station around



4:30 am, the police said and added the victims were homeless and sleeping on the footpath.

An officer said the medium goods vehicle was approaching the Iron Bridge from Seelampur when it climbed the central verge and ran over the five men sleeping on the footpath.