Five people, including four students of a private college, lost their lives after their car was crushed between two speeding trucks on the Ruma-Bhaunti flyover in the Kanpur district of Uttar Pradesh on Monday, police said.
The car was completely wrecked, and rescuers had to cut through the mangled metal to retrieve the bodies of the students and the driver, officials said, news agency PTI reported.
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Deputy Commissioner of Police (West) Rajesh Kumar Singh said the incident occurred as the students—Ayushi Patel, Garima Tripathi, Satish Kumar, and Prateek Singh—were on their way to the Pranveer Singh Institute of Technology. They had barely reached Panki when their vehicle was trapped between two trucks.
Both truck drivers fled the scene, abandoning their vehicles, which have since been seized, Singh added. Police further added that while Patel was from Fatehpur, the other students and the driver, Vijay Sahu (52), were residents of Kanpur. The bodies have been sent for post-mortem.
Four Killed In Accident After Tourist Bus Overturns In Odisha’s Balasore
A similar incident was reported on September 28 from Odisha, where at least four people were killed and 30 were injured when a tourist bus from Uttar Pradesh overturned in Balasore district.
The accident took place when the bus, which was en route to Puri, veered off the road and toppled into a paddy field near Mahamadnagar Patna on National Highway-60, PTI quoted police as saying.
The injured were immediately rushed to G K Bhattar Hospital in Jaleswar. Later, 17 critically injured passengers were transferred to the district headquarters hospital in Balasore for further treatment, the police also said.
Inspector Ranjan Kumar Sethi of Jaleswar Police Station further added that the bus was carrying around 57 passengers from Sidharthnagar district in Uttar Pradesh. The group had recently visited Varanasi, Gaya, Ganga Sagar, and Kolkata, and was on their way to Puri when the accident took place.
