Youth killed as mini-truck rams into bike

Bhopal: A speeding loading mini-truck rammed into a bike-borne three minor boys in Piplani locality on Monday afternoon. Two boys were thrown beside while a minor 17-year-old boy was crushed under the wheels of the mini-truck. He died on the spot.
Investigating officer HC Rai Singh Bhadouria said Raj Mehra, a resident of Satnami Nagar in Piplani, was a student of class 11.
Bhadouria said that Raj along with his friends Nitin Sen and Arun Rajput were going on a bike for shopping. Nitin was riding the bike while Raj was riding pillion. Arun was sitting in the middle. When they reached JK Road trisection around 3.45pm, Nitin stopped the bike as the traffic signal was red. At the same time a loading mini-truck coming from behind hit the bike. As Raj was sitting on the edge of the bike, he fell under the mini-truck while his friends fell away. The wheels of the mini-truck crushed him and he died on the spot. Piplani police have seized the mini-truck and registered a case against the errant driver.