3 Indians killed in Indonesian road accident

NEW DELHI: Three Indian employees of Gurgaon-based Enexco Technologies on a business visit to Indonesia have died in a road accident there.

Three senior officials of Enexco -- identified as T S Ramachandran (49), Brijesh Kalra (32) and Tharnish Kumar (22) -- were travelling from Banda Aceh to Medan on Friday when the accident occurred, company chairman K J Puetz told said here.

While Ramachandran and Kumar died on the spot, Kalra succumbed on way to hospital.

The victims were part of a six-member Indian team comprising four Enexco executives and two from other Indian companies and were travelling to visit a cement plant project Lafarge, which was shut down due to the tsunami and was under commissioning.

Two other members of the team are in critical condition and are being treated at a hospital in Medan.

"We are working out a compensation plan for the families of the deceased," Puetz said.

He claimed it was probably the fault of the driver of the car who was careless and had been repeatedly told by the team to drive slow and safely.

The bodies are being brought to India tomorrow by Malaysian Airlines and will be handed over to their relatives.

While Ramachandran was from Dwarka in New Delhi, Kalra and Kumar were from Chandigarh and Tamil Nadu respectively.