All six members of family killed in road accident on Agra-Lucknow expressway
The accident occurred near the Talgram police station.
As many as six students and a teacher lost their lives and two others sustained critical injuries on Monday after they were run over by a bus in Uttar Pradesh’s Kannauj district, police said.
The students of Prabha Devi Bhagwati Prasad BTC degree college were on a study tour from Sant Kabir Nagar to Haridwar. They were travelling in more than one bus.
The accident took place on the Agra-Lucknow Expressway when one of the buses broke down after running out of fuel, following which the students and the teacher alighted from the vehicle and were strolling on the roadside.
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“The accident occurred when students were filling diesel from one bus to another, and were run over by another bus, which was passing by. As of now seven persons including a teacher have died, while two others are injured,” said a police spokesperson.
The injured were admitted to the Kannauj Medical College. The Uttar Pradesh State Roadways Transport Corporation (UPSRTC) bus was seized but its driver escaped, the official added.
The victims were identified as Nikhilesh, Vijay, Mahesh Gupta, Vishal Kumar, Abhay Pratap, Satish and Jitendra Kumar Yadav.
A UP government spokesperson said Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had expressed grief over the death of six Basic Training Certificate students and a teacher of Prabha Devi Vidyalaya, Sant Kabirnagar, in a road accident in Kannauj. He has announced a financial assistance of Rs 2 lakh for the kin of each of the deceased, and Rs 50,000 for each of the injured persons.
The chief minister has directed officials to register an FIR in the matter and proper medical treatment for the injured persons.
(With agency inputs)
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