Vehicle rams into ambulance carrying bodies of 'terrorists'

An unidentified vehicle rammed into an ambulance that was taking to Punjab the bodies of three suspected terrorists of the Khalistan Zindabad Force killed in an encounter in Uttar Pradesh's Pilibhit, police said on Wednesday.

No one was hurt in the incident that occurred on the Rampur bypass on Tuesday night, but the ambulance was damaged following which the bodies were shifted to another vehicle, they said.

Superintendent of Police Vidyasagar Mishra said the ambulance carrying the bodies of three suspected terrorists from Pilibhit to Punjab was hit by the unidentified vehicle on the Rampur bypass on Tuesday night.

There was no casualty in the incident, he said.

As soon as they received information about the accident, the Rampur police rushed to the site and the bodies were shifted from the damaged vehicle to another ambulance, he said.

A joint team of Punjab Police and Uttar Pradesh Police killed the three suspected terrorists, who were allegedly involved in a grenade attack on a police post in Gurdaspur, in an encounter in Pilibhit's Puranpur on Monday.