A 33-year old Indian truck driver died in a road accident in New South Wales region, Australia when his vehicles plunged into a deep gorge on Saturday, December 2 as reported by SBS Punjabi, Australia.
Parminder Singh, alias Rinku worked as a truck driver for a Melbourne based trucking company and was on his way back to Melbourne from Brisbane. The incident happened near Gilgandra in New South Wales on Saturday afternoon.
“It was raining very heavily, and he was on a steep downhill stretch, and it seems the truck failed to stop in time which caused it to roll off the road into a gorge,” a friend told SBS Punjabi, Australia.
"Initially we were planning to arrange for sending his body back to India, but the trucking company he was working for has taken it upon itself once the autopsy is done at New Castle," he added.
Mr Singh belongs to a village in Punjab and came to Australia on a student visa in 2008 and became a resident in 2013. His friends in Shepparton informed his family of the news where he lived before moving to Melbourne.
“I was informed by his friends, who are making efforts to bring the body back, that the doctors are yet to perform the autopsy. This is causing unnecessary delay. I urge minister of external affairs Sushma Swaraj to help us so that we get his body soon,” Parminder’s father Hardev Singh told the local media in India.