hisar five labourers were killed and five others injured near jindal railway overbridge in hisar early on wednesday morning after two speeding cars one after the other ran over labourers sleeping on footpathrecarpeting of the road was being carried out for the last three days and the labourers all from bihar were sleeping on the footpath after eating dinnerthe first car hyundai i20 did not have a registration number and was driven at high speed by manoj alias mowgli who was injured after his car fell from the overbridge after running over the sleeping men the car fell about 80 feet on the service road manoj a hisar resident was convicted in a murder case but he went missing before quantum of sentence could be pronounced against him the hisar district police spokesperson saidthe second car a hyundai creta hr 09g2 0002 too was speeding and ran over the sleeping labourers and came to a stop after colliding with a bitumen drum the driver of this vehicle escaped from the spot after abandoning the vehicle it is now clear whether there were any other passengers in the carthe urban estate police station has registered a case against manoj and the driver of hyundai creta under sections 279 337 and 304a of the indian penal code on the complaint of one of the injured labourers identified as gobindathe dead labourers have been identified as neeraj yadav 30 vikash 35 chand kishore 20 avadhesh 35 all residents of bela vilgera village of bihars khangaria district and 20yearold subhash of badha village in saharsa district of bihar the injured were identified as gobinda 25 bhushan 23 shankar 23 sattan 25 and vikash 25in his complaint gobinda said he along with other men had arrived in hisar for work two months ago since last four to five days all of them managed to get work to recarpet and repair the overbridge a warning signboard was placed on the road and gravel and bitumen drums along with other items were kept on the side after finishing all the work on tuesday evening and after eating food all the labourers slept asleep on the footpath he saidat night when he got up to drink water he saw driver of a white car crushing his companions chand kishore and vikash with his car that then fell from the bridge just as other scared labourers started taking care of those injured another whitecoloured car ran over everyone govinda addedafter the postmortem relatives of the deceased laborers refused to receive their bodies and demanded compensation of rs 5 lakh each after long rounds of negotiation the families accepted the bodies after the contractor rajendra chahal paid them rs 75000 each for funerals and the district commissioner promised them compensation from the state labour departmentchahal told toi that work on the overbridge was to start from wednesday and added that the labourers had no need to sleep on the footpath at night