Couple returning home from wedding ceremony crushed to death by speeding truck in Malda

A man and his wife, who were returning home after a wedding on their motorcycle, were killed when they were hit by a truck traveling at full speed in Malda, Bengal Occidental district, police said on Monday.

The incident took place at Disco Mod in Sahapur in Malda police commissionerate area when Subhash Sheel, 41, and his wife Babli Sheel, 35, were returning to their home in Namtola after attending a wedding in Buniyadpur. In the neighboring district South Dinajpur on Sunday. , Night.

A truck at full speed hit the couple riding a motorcycle and fled from the scene, leaving them seriously injured, a police officer said, adding that they were taken to Malda Medical College and Hospital, where doctors treated them. Declared him dead.

He said the couple is survived by a son and a daughter.