A truck driver dragged two people for about 300 meters on the Agra highway in Uttar Pradesh under his truck late on Sunday night, December 22. Some locals forced the driver to stop the truck and extricated the men from under the vehicle.
Police arrested the driver and seized the truck. The two men, both residents of Nunhai in Agra, were going towards Rambagh from Waterworks when they met with an accident around 11 pm Sunday. The driver, instead of stopping the truck sped up, trapping both of them underneath.
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"In the accident, two youths were dragged by a canter driver for about 300 metres. Later, some residents saved the youths by stopping the driver using force," Chhatta Police Station Inspector Pramod Kumar told news agency PTI.
"The youths were sent for treatment at a nearby hospital and are still being treated, but are in stable condition. The youths were from Agra. The canter driver was arrested and the canter seized after the incident," he said.
"A video is going viral on social media. In this video, a person is being dragged for a long distance by a truck. A case has been filed against the truck driver, and he has been arrested. The person who was being dragged has been admitted to a hospital," said a senior police official.
A video of the incident that surfaced on social media showed the men shouting for help. The video was purported to have been shot by a person passing by on a two-wheeler.