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Three women activists from the BKU Ekta Ugrahan farmer organisation were killed in a tragic bus accident on Saturday, with several others sustaining injuries.

 

The bus was carrying over 52 members of BKU (Ugrahan) from a village in Bathinda district to Haryana's Tohana for a farmers' mahapanchayat there.

 

There was fog in the area and the bus met with an accident and overturned at the bypass, Barnala SHO Kuljinder Singh said.

 

"Three women, who were on their way to Tohana in the bus, were killed in the accident," he said, adding that it was being investigated what caused the accident. 

Tragic news: A bus carrying farmers to the Tohana Mahapanchayat met with an accident near Barnala on the Barnala-Bathinda Highway. Several farmers were injured, and reports confirm 3 women farmers have succumbed to their injuries. The farmers were associated with BKU Ugrahan. pic.twitter.com/LzXWV6S00r

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