A couple, their six-year-old daughter and 150 goats and sheep were charred to death when a truck they were travelling in caught fire after coming in contact with an overhead high-tension wire in Gujarat’s Arvalli district on Monday, police said.
The fire engulfed the vehicle carrying three members of a shepherd family from Rajasthan and their livestock in Bamanwad village at around 9 am, an official from Tintoi police station said.
The incident took place when the truck driver turned the vehicle towards a grazing land, over which a high-tension wire was running, sub-inspector Komal Rathod said.