PRAYAGRAJ, Nov. 11 -- A tourist bus carrying around 40 passengers from Delhi to Varanasi collided with a tanker near Gurukul School in the Saini area of Kaushambi on Tuesday morning. Three people were injured in the accident. The bus driver remained trapped inside the badly damaged cabin for nearly an hour before police rescued him. The accident took place near the Saini overbridge when the bus driver, Ram Kumar, a resident of Kanpur, tried to overtake the tanker travelling ahead of him. The collision was so severe that the front portion of the bus was badly crushed. The driver and two women passengers were trapped inside the damaged vehicle. The injured women were identified as Munni Devi, 50, wife of Shiv Shankar, and Sunita, 48, wife of Rakesh Kumar. Both are residents of Varanasi. After hearing their cries for help, passers-by alerted the police. A team from Saini police station reached the spot and used gas cutters to cut through the mangled bus body and rescue the trapped people. Ambulances took all three injured people to the community health centre (CHC) in Sirathu. The two women were discharged after receiving primary treatment. However, Ram Kumar was referred to the district hospital because of his critical condition. DSP (Sirathu) Satyendra Tiwari said the tanker had been taken into police custody and an investigation was under way. The other passengers were sent to their respective destinations in alternative buses. A four-year-old girl who went missing while accompanying her mother to a market on Diwali evening on Sunday was found dead in a pond behind the Nagar Panchayat office in Lal Gopalganj town of Prayagraj district on Monday morning. Locals spotted the body of Sara Khan, daughter of Zafaradil and a resident of Daniyalpur Tiraha, floating in the pond. They immediately alerted the police. The girl had gone missing at around 4 pm on Sunday after getting separated from her mother at the market. Her family members, neighbours and hundreds of local residents searched for her until late Sunday night but could not find her. Police teams led by outpost in-charge Vineet Kumar Mishra, ACP Shyamjeet Singh and Nawabganj SHO Pankaj Awasthi reached the spot and retrieved the body. It was later sent for a postmortem examination. The surveillance team and Special Operations Group (SOG) have also joined the investigation after an FIR was registered. Meanwhile, the girl's death triggered anger among youths from her ancestral village, Parewa, in Pratapgarh district. They reached Lal Gopalganj and demanded that the circumstances surrounding her death be established at the earliest. Some of them threatened to block traffic, but police officials pacified them and prevented the blockade. Sara was the only child of her parents. Police said the circumstances that led to her death had not yet been established and the investigation was under way....