Lucknow, Oct. 4 -- Four people were killed after an ambulance carrying the body of a deceased soldier from Chandigarh to Ghazipur crashed into a stationary truck on the Purvanchal Expressway in Uttar Pradesh's Sultanpur district on Sunday morning, police said.

The accident took place around 8am near Haliyapur, close to the Ayodhya-Sultanpur border. The ambulance went out of control and rammed into a truck parked along the roadside, leaving it badly damaged, police said.

Police suspect the deceased include the ambulance driver, a military personnel and two family members of the deceased soldier whose body was being transported to Ghazipur. They were working to establish the identities of the deceased and ascertain the circumstances leadi...