India, June 15 -- At least 17 people, including a one-and-a-18-month-old girl, sustained injuries after a Delhi-bound private sleeper bus rammed into a divider and overturned near Dalit Prerna Sthal on the Noida-Greater Noida Expressway early Sunday, police said, adding that prima facie it appears the driver dozed off.

Both the driver and conductor are on the run, it added.

According to officials, the bus, with 29 people on board, had left Farrukhabad on Saturday around 7.30 pm for Delhi. "On Sunday, around 5.15 am, when it reached a few metres ahead of the Mahamaya Flyover near Rashtriya Dalit Prerna Sthal, it rammed into a divider and overturned. The collision was so intense that the front wheel of the bus came off," said an officer p...