"Police actions were taken in connection with a report received today, around 2:15 p.m., about an abandoned truck in the land of the village of Lokorsko and a group of people around it," the Ministry of the Interior announced.
The kin of the deceased alleged that the jeep was very old and it carried people more than its capacity. Demanding action against the driver, he claimed that he killed the people in the greed of money.
The state government was committed to protecting the rights of the truck operators of the state and the deadlock will be resolved in a way that both parties should not suffer any losses, said the Chief Minister.
Taking to Twitter, Turkey's special representative for normalization talks with Armenia, Serdar Kilic said that the Armenia delegation with five trucks overloaded with 100 tonnes of food, medicine and drinking water passed through the Alican border gate.
The accident occurred near Korar village which is nearly 20 kilometres away from the district headquarters on Thursday. The injured were admitted to the district hospital.
Seven school children were killed and four severely injured after the auto-rickshaw they were in collided with a truck in Chhattisgarh's Kanker district, officials said.