KANPUR: Two passengers died while 52 others were injured after a speeding double-decker bus heading from Bihar to Delhi skidded off the Agra-Lucknow Expressway and plunged into a ditch in Saifai area of Uttar Pradesh's Etawah early Thursday.
The bus departed from Bihar's Madhubani around 3pm on Wednesday with 67 passengers. "The bus was moving at a very high speed. It appears that the driver dozed off at the wheel," Etawah ASP Akash Tomar said. A search was launched for the driver who fled the scene following the accident.
On being informed, a UPEIDA team and local police arrived at the spot and launched a rescue operation. "All passengers were taken to Uttar Pradesh University of Medical Sciences in Saifai, where Shahina (22) from Bardaha village in Nepal's Mahottari district, and Manoj Kumar (59) from Bihar's Darbhanga, were declared dead," Etawah senior superintendent of police (SSP) Brijesh Kumar Srivastava said.
The bodies were sent for postmortem examination. The exact cause of the accident was being investigated, and action would be taken against the bus owner and operator, the SSP said.
The bus departed from Bihar's Madhubani around 3pm on Wednesday with 67 passengers. "The bus was moving at a very high speed. It appears that the driver dozed off at the wheel," Etawah ASP Akash Tomar said. A search was launched for the driver who fled the scene following the accident.
On being informed, a UPEIDA team and local police arrived at the spot and launched a rescue operation. "All passengers were taken to Uttar Pradesh University of Medical Sciences in Saifai, where Shahina (22) from Bardaha village in Nepal's Mahottari district, and Manoj Kumar (59) from Bihar's Darbhanga, were declared dead," Etawah senior superintendent of police (SSP) Brijesh Kumar Srivastava said.
The bodies were sent for postmortem examination. The exact cause of the accident was being investigated, and action would be taken against the bus owner and operator, the SSP said.
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