At least seven people were killed and 30 others were wounded in a vehicle collision on the Agra-Lucknow Expressway in Mainpuri district of Uttar Pradesh on Sunday, IANS reported. The bus driver is among the deceased victims, officials said.
The incident involved a Varanasi-bound passenger bus that collided with a truck. Rakesh Pandey, the official in charge of Karhal police station, said, “The accident took place on the Agra-Lucknow Expressway while the bus, en route to Varanasi from New Delhi, tried to overtake and collided head-on with the truck coming from the opposite direction.”
The injured are being treated in a hospital in Saifai.
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