India, Feb. 25 -- Disturbing visuals of a bus accident near the Purvanchal Expressway toll plaza in Lucknow on Monday afternoon have surfaced on social media, showing bodies dangling from and falling out of the windows during rescue operation.

Three children were among five passengers who died when the overcrowded double-decker private bus overturned, sending 45 others to the hospital and triggering a large-scale rescue operation.

The bus, bearing a Haryana registration number, was travelling from Ludhiana in Punjab to Darbhanga in Bihar with approximately 85 passengers on board when it lost control and overturned around 3 pm, HT earlier quoted deputy commissioner of police (DCP) South Zone Nipun Agarwal as saying.

A distressing video ...