18 dead, 25 critically injured after speeding truck rams into bus near Barabanki in UP

  • | Wednesday | 28th July, 2021

Most of the people who died in the incident were going back to their home district of Bihar after doing daily wage work in Haryana and Punjab.

A speeding truck rammed a roadside bus from behind in Ramsanehi ghat area in Uttar Pradesh`s Barabanki district, killing 18 people and injuring 25 others Prime Minister Narendra Modi called Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and expressed grief over the incident and announced Rs 2 lakh each from the Prime Minister`s National Relief Fund to the families of those killed in the accident and Rs 50,000 each to the injured.

Most of the people who died in the incident were going back to their home district of Bihar after doing daily wage work in Haryana and Punjab.

A private double-decker bus carrying passengers from Haryana to Bihar was parked on the side of the road on the intervening night of July 27/28, near Kalyani river on Lucknow-Ayodhya highway in Ramsanehi ghat area due to a breakdown of axle. The passengers came out of the bus after being told that the bus was delayed and some people were also lying on the road in front of the bus. Then at around 12 am in night, a speeding truck from Nagaland going from Punjab to Bihar hit the bus from behind.

The laborers who survived the accident told how three buses were forcibly sent on the strength of sticks and rods in one ride. The sleeper double-decker bus had a capacity of 85 passengers, but 140 people were made to sit in it after being beaten up.


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