Jaipur: A speeding dumper rammed into an ambulance in Rajasthan’s Pali district early Wednesday, leaving four persons dead, police said.

Station House Officer Niranjan Singh said a patient identified as Ashok was being taken in an ambulance from Ahmedabad to Jodhpur by his family members.

The ambulance hit a stray cattle near Gajangarh and was damaged. Another ambulance was then called from Jodhpur.

When the patient was being transferred to another ambulance, a speeding dumper hit the damaged ambulance leaving two persons identified as Mohini Devi and Fagli dead on the spot.

Ambulance driver Sunil and another persons succumbed to injuries at a hospital in Jodhpur, he said, adding Ashok was injured in the incident.