LUCKNOW, Oct. 4 -- Four people, including the son, brother and a relative's son of an Army man, were killed when an ambulance carrying the soldier's body rammed into a stationary truck on the Purvanchal Expressway in Uttar Pradesh's Sultanpur district on Sunday morning.

The accident occurred around 8:15 a.m. near Haliyapur on the Ayodhya-Sultanpur border. The ambulance was carrying the body of Subedar Major Satyawan Singh from Panchkula to his native Deoria when it crashed into the truck from behind.

Taking cognisance of the accident, chief minister Yogi Adityanath expressed condolences to the bereaved families and announced Rs.2 lakh ex gratia each for next of kin of the deceased. He directed officials to reach the spot immediately, ex...