Seven people, including three Nepalese citizens, died in separate incidents after their vehicles met with an accident on the Agra-Lucknow Expressway amid dense fog, police said on Monday.
In the first incident, a Nepal-bound bus rammed into a truck on the expressway in in Uttar Pradesh’s Unnao on Monday, leaving the driver and three Nepalese citizens dead, officials said. Six other passengers, four of them also from Nepal, got injured in the incident and have been hospitalised, they said.
According to Additional Superintendent of Police Shashi Shekhar Singh the bus carrying 60 passengers was going from Rajkot in Gujarat to Nepal. The accident occurred in the Auras area of Unnao.
He added three male passengers of the bus died on the spot, while one woman succumbed to her injuries on the way to the hospital.
Hasanganj Sub-Divisional Magistrate Ankit Shukla said the deceased have been identified as Chandra Saud (50), Lalit Saud (35), and Nirmala (25), all residents of Kailali district of Nepal.
(with inputs from Agencies)
