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Uttar Pradesh: 43 hurt as bus going to Punjab overturns on Agra-Lucknow expressway

UPEIDA security personnel and police, who reached the spot, took the injured out of the bus and sent them to Tirwa Medical College in Kannauj.
Uttar Pradesh: 43 hurt as bus going to Punjab overturns on Agra-Lucknow expressway
At the time of the accident, the majority of the passengers in the bus were asleep. (Representative image)
KANPUR: Around 43 passengers were injured when a bus going to Punjab overturned in Bilhaur area of the district on the Agra-Lucknow expressway on Thursday morning. The mishap took place at 214 milestone. The passengers on board the bus were going from Bihar to Punjab.
UPEIDA security personnel and police, who reached the spot, took the injured out of the bus and sent them to Tirwa Medical College in Kannauj.

Later, the UPEIDA personnel lifted the bus with the help of a crane in order to make traffic flow smooth on the expressway.
The bus was heading to Punjab Chandigarh from Bihar on the Agra-Lucknow Expressway, when it overturned near Makanpur at the Milestone no: 214 around 6 am on Thursday. There were a total of 68 passengers travelling in the bus, out of which 43 passengers were injured in the accident.
At the time of the accident, the majority of the passengers in the bus were asleep.
Kotwali in-charge Narendra Singh said that going by the preliminary investigations it seems that the bus driver dozed off. “All the injured have been admitted to Tirwa Medical college in Kannauj. One among the injured is stated to be critical by the doctors. The name of the bus driver could not be ascertained. Further investigations are underway.”
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