At least nine people were killed and 27 others were seriously injured after a truck and a passenger bus collided in Uttar Pradesh’s Barabanki district on Thursday morning. Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath expressed grief over the incident and announced ₹2 lakh ex-gratia each for the families of the deceased and ₹50,000 each for those injured in the accident.
Police personnel and officials from the district administration rushed to the spot-on receiving news of the accident. Emergency responders managed to cut off portions from the bus and retrieve the injured from the accident spot. When the injured people were dispatched to the district hospital, the doctors declared nine of them dead on arrival, as per the report. However, there are other passengers yet to be identified.
