New Delhi: India’s High Commissioner to Canada Ajay Bisaria on Monday tweeted about the death of five Indian students in a road accident at Ontario. Two others have been hospitalised after suffering injuries, he added.
S Jaishankar, the Minister of External Affairs of India, also offered condolences to the families of the deceased. The Consulate General of India, Toronto, “will provide all necessary support and assistance”, he added.
According to the Canadian Press, the passenger van in which they were travelling collided with a tractor-trailer around 3:45 am on Saturday on Highway 401 in the Quinte West city in Southern Ontario.
The Quinte West Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) have identified the deceased students as Harpreet Singh, Jaspinder Singh, Karanpal Singh, Mohit Chouhan and Pawan Kumar. The victims, aged between 21 and 24 years, were pronounced dead at the scene.
“Highway 401 was closed for approximately 10 hours between Wallbridge Loyalist Road and Glen Miller Road while OPP Technical Collision Investigators (TCIs) and OPP Collision Reconstructionists investigated the scene of the collision,” the police release said,
They were all students in the Greater Toronto and Montreal areas, it added.
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