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A car-truck collision on the Badarpur flyover in southeast Delhi claimed the lives of three men and injured four others on Sunday, police said. The incident happened on Saturday night when the seven men were on their way back to Sanjay Colony in Okhla from a wedding in Faridabad, Haryana, they said.

Deputy Commissioner of Police (Southeast) Rajesh Deo said that a PCR call about the accident near the Honda showroom on the flyover was received at 12.48 am. A police team reached the spot and took the injured to AIIMS trauma centre, he said.

The investigation revealed that the car driver hit a divider on the flyover after losing control of his vehicle. The car then bounced off the divider and landed on the other side of the road, where it crashed into the truck, he said.

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The police identified the deceased as Raj (21), Sanju (38) and Dinesh (22). The injured included Ansul (18), who is critical, and Neeraj (18), Ajit (28) and Vishal (28), who are stable, they said.

Raj lived with his family in Laxmi Nagar and his father is a tailor in Mathura and his mother is no more, the police said. Sanju, who lived in Sanjay Colony, was a married man with two kids – a boy and a girl and he worked as a labourer at a tailor shop. Dinesh, also from Sanjay Colony, was a cloth cutter at a shop in Okhla, they said.

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The car was totally wrecked due to the impact of the accident. Police have registered a case against the truck driver, who fled the scene and initiated a probe to ascertain the cause of the accident.

(With PTI Inputs)