3 Nepalese dead, 24 injured as bus rams into truck

Lakhimpur Kheri (UP), November 11

Three Nepalese were killed and 24 others were injured when a speeding mini-bus carrying 29 passengers rammed into a stationary heavy truck on the Pilibhit-Basti road here on Wednesday.

The vehicle, which was carrying Nepalese passengers mostly, was heading to Rupaideeha from Solan in Himachal Pradesh, when the bus rammed into the truck that was parked along the roadside near a petrol pump near Sisaiya village in Isanagar area early this morning, the police said.

The identity of those killed could not be ascertained yet, but all of them belonged to Peerpur in Nepal, they said.

The injured have been rushed to hospital, where the condition of six is stated to be critical.

Negligence on the part of the Nepalese driver, who was also killed in the mishap, was stated to be the reason behind the accident, they said. — PTI