Car rams barricade at Singhu border, 1 dead

THE FRONT TYRE OF CAR BURST, AND THE VEHICLE HIT A CEMENT BARRIER -- THAT LOCALS HAVE LONG DEMANDED BE REMOVED FROM THE ROAD

- Hemani Bhandari

NEW DELHI: A 35-year-old man, who had gone to Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport to pick up his mother and was travelling with her to their home town of Jalandhar in Punjab, was killed in a freak accident near Singhu—the border between the Capital and Haryana—after a tyre of the car they were travelling in burst, causing the driver to veer into a cement jersey barrier, police said on Thursday.

A senior officer identified the deceased as Omkar Singh. He said the 35-year-old had gone with his friends Simran Singh, 30, and Amritpal Singh, 30, to IGI on Sunday to pick up his mother Jitender Kaur, 67, who had flown in from Canada. The four were in a Toyota Innova car—Simran Singh was driving when the accident occurred.