India, Jan. 30 -- The driver of a tractor-trailer was among two farmers killed later on Wednesday after being crushed by bundles of sugarcane they were transporting on a tractor-trailer, officials said.

The farmers were killed as the bundles lost balance and toppled over, crushing them, as they were on the national highway near Bahomajra village in Khanna, the officials added.

To add to the woes, a Jagraon-based lawyer died after a taxi he was travelling in rammed into the same tractor-trailer stuck on the roadside at the accident spot early on Thursday, the officials added.

According to police, Gurdeep Singh and his neighbour Didar Singh, residents of Majri, were transporting a sugarcane to Amloh when the rope securing the bundles sna...