Four persons, including the driver of an e-rickshaw , were killed on Wednesday afternoon when the vehicle collided head-on with a truck on the Burdwan-Kalna road in East Burdwan’s Shaktigarh.

Police have seized the truck and said that prima facie the Toto driver was drunk.

“All four passengers, including the driver of the e-rickshaw (commonly called Toto), were drunk. Eyewitnesses said that the Toto was going in a zigzag way. The bodies have been sent for post-mortem,” said Kamanisish Sen, East Burdwan SP.

Police have identified the deceased as driver Bhairab Das, 26, Nirmal Chatterjee, 50, and Abhijit Pal, 48. The fourth person is yet to be identified.

According to eyewitnesses, the Toto headed for Burdwan town careened near Baliara village in Shaktigarh and collided with the truck coming from the opposite direction.

Raw spirit

East Burdwan police on Tuesday night recovered 1,500 litres of raw spirit from Shaktigarh. Police said the raw spirit would have gone towards making around 15,000 litres of illicit liquor.