At least 15 labourers have been crushed to death by a truck in India while they were sleeping by a road, police said.
The accident took place early on Tuesday near a village in Surat district in India's western state of Gujarat, area police chief Varadbhai Patel said on telephone.'
The dumper truck ran over the sleeping workers, killing 12 of them at the scene, Patel said. Eight wounded were taken to hospital, where three more succumbed to their injuries, he added.
The dead included a baby girl, eight women and six men, said police official Usha Rada.
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