Five killed as bus rams into stationary vehicle in Ambala
Tribune News Service
Ambala, December 27
Five persons were killed and 10 injured after a private bus rammed into another bus from the rear side on the Chandigarh-Delhi road in the wee hours of Monday.
While the four deceased were identified as Rahul (21) of Jharkhand, Pradeep (22) of Uttar Pradesh, Meena Bai (44) and Rohit (53) of Chhattisgarh, the fifth deceased was yet to be identified. All five were declared brought dead at hospital.
At least 10 persons, including Navneet, Manoj Kumar, Ram Rattan, Arvind, Kavita, and Kirat, suffered injuries in the accident. Navneet and Kirat were later referred to the PGI, Chandigarh.
Bike falls into pit dug up for flyover, 2 die
- Two persons were killed after their motorcycle fell into a pit dug up to lay pillars of a flyover of the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway corridor in Faridabad on Sunday night
- The bodies of the victims, identified as Jyoti Prakash (42) and Alok Kumar (27), who hailed from Kanpur (UP), were found on Monday morning by passersby and retrieved by the police at 11.30 am
- Claiming that the accident may have taken place due to poor visibility and darkness in the area, a police official said the victims fell directly on iron angles, killing them on the spot
Investigating officer ASI Dharmpal said a bus bearing Rajasthan registration number was parked when a UP registration number bus, on its way to Delhi, came behind the parked bus. Meanwhile, a Haryana registration number bus rammed into the UP numbered bus from the rear side. The injured were rushed to the Civil Hospital in Ambala City. While four passengers, travelling in the UP bus, were killed, the fifth deceased was travelling in the Haryana bus. He was yet to be identified.
Most of the passengers were sleeping when the accident took place.
A case was registered on the complaint of Androj Kumar, a resident of Bihar, under Sections 304-A, 279 and 337 of the IPC at the Baldev Nagar police station against the unidentified bus driver.
