Three killed 10 injured as bus collides with truck in UP's Kushinagar

Kushinagar (UP), Nov 7 (PTI) Three people, including a four-year-old girl, were killed and 10 others injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a truck in Uttar Pradesh’s Kushinagar district on Saturday morning, police said.

     The accident occurred around 5.45 am near Labaniya intersection, close to Dummarbhar village under the Patherwa police station area.

     According to police, a luxury bus heading towards Bihar was attempting to overtake another vehicle when it collided head-on with a truck.

     Police personnel from the Patherwa police station reached the spot after receiving information and rushed the injured to the Community Health Centre in Tamkuhiraj for treatment.

     The deceased have been identified as Kumari Nandani (4) and two unidentified men aged between 30 and 35 years.

     Among the injured are Amrita Devi (34), Gopal Thapa (39) and Sandesh Mayali (39), all residents of Jhapa district in Nepal; Karuna (21), a resident of Rampur, Udayapur in Nepal; Dhirendra Shah (36) and Aarti Shah (21), both from Muzaffarpur; Kunal Kumar (38) and Shatrughn Kumar (43), residents of Sitamarhi; and Munnilal Kushwaha (50), a resident of Kushinagar.

     Another injured passenger, whose identity is yet to be ascertained, was referred to Gorakhpur for further treatment from a medical facility in Kushinagar.

     Patherwa Station House Officer Arun Singh said the bodies had been sent for post-mortem examination and the injured were undergoing treatment.

     The truck driver fled the spot after the accident, and efforts are underway to trace him, police said.

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