RAMPUR: 3 killed, 49 injured in head-on collision between buses

Rampur: Police said that three people were killed and about 49 passengers were injured in a collision between a government bus and a private bus in Milak area on Monday morning. He said that the accident took place on the Kanwar Yatra route on the Delhi-Bareilly National Highway. Police said that the private bus was going from Haridwar to Shravasti district, while the Uttar Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (UPSRTC) bus was going from Bareilly to Delhi. During this, both of them collided head-on. On receiving information about the accident, District Magistrate (DM) Joginder Singh and Superintendent of Police (SP) Rampur Vidyasagar Mishra reached the spot. DM Singh said that a UP Roadways bus and a private bus collided on NH-24 at around four in the morning, in which three people including the bus driver died and about 49 people were injured. He said that all the injured were admitted to the Community Health Center in Milak, from where nine people were referred to the district hospital. The DM said that the private bus was going in the wrong direction. Singh also said that the deceased is probably the driver of the UP Roadways bus and the deceased have not been identified yet.