6 killed, 3 injured as truck rams bus on Yamuna E-way
Agra, Feb. 8 -- Six people were killed and three injured when a speeding truck ran them over after crashing into a bus parked on the Yamuna Expressway in Mathura district in the early hours of Saturday, police officials said.
The deceased and injured were passengers of the private sleeper coach bus that had taken a break near Milestone 88 within the Sureer police station limits.
The bus, with over 40 passengers onboard, was going to Kanpur Dehat from Delhi when the mishap occurred around 2.45am, said district magistrate Chandra Prakash Singh, who was at the hospital where one of the three injured was admitted, adding that due compensation would be given to the families of the deceased. The DM was accompanied by senior superintendent of police Shlok Kumar. The two other injured persons were discharged after first-aid.
Meanwhile, chief minister Yogi Adityanath expressed condolences to the bereaved families officials and directed officials to expedite relief efforts.
The officials said the bus was parked in the fourth lane, instead of the green zone marked on the expressway for such parking.
After the bus stopped midway, passengers got down to relieve themselves. This was when the speeding truck struck the bus from behind and mowed down the six passengers. Those killed were identified as Sonu (32) and Anurag (27) from Auraiya, Devesh (32) from Basti, Aslam (27) from Kannauj, Santosh (46) from Delhi, and Pramod (35) from Firozabad. The injured passenger who was hospitalised was identified as Shiv Kant Dubey.
A case was registered, and the bodies of the deceased had been sent for post-mortem, the officials said.
SSP Shlok Kumar said efforts were on to trace the truck's driver, who managed to flee after the accident. The remaining 36 passengers were sent to their destinations, he added.
The 165-kilometre-long expressway connects Agra and Noida. In a previous incident, 19 were killed in a pile-up of vehicles due to fog on December 16 last year.
In another mishap, three people were killed in Etah district when a speeding car rammed a tree and fell in a ditch near Aaspur town on Saturday.
Two of the three were identified as Shivam Yadav (21) and Sumit Yadav (23). Another passenger was a woman, who was accompanying them from Gurugram to Mainpuri to attend a wedding....
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