5 hospital staff members killed in car crash in India's Haryana

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NEW DELHI, Dec. 3 (Xinhua) -- Five employees of a privately-run hospital were killed and one critically injured on Friday in a road accident in the northern Indian state of Haryana, local media reported.

The accident took place near Sadhrana village of Gurugram district on the outskirts of the Indian capital Delhi.

"The accident took place around 1:00 a.m. (local time) when six employees of Genesis Hospital in Sector 84 were returning to the hospital. It was on the Harsaru-Sadhrana road that their speeding car went out of control and collided with the bricks on the roadside and overturned," a local newspaper The Tribune quoting police officials said.

"The collision was such that five of them died on the spot while the sixth was seriously injured."

Following the car crash, a police team reached the spot after getting information and retrieved the bodies from the mangled car.

According to the newspaper, the injured employee has been removed to a hospital.

Reports said the victims were on their way to the hospital after attending a marriage ceremony of their colleague.

The newspaper said the deceased were hailing from different states.

"We have kept the bodies in the mortuary and informed the families. We are investigating the matter," the newspaper quoted a police official Rakesh Kumar as having said. Enditem

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