Five people, including a woman, were killed and over a dozen injured, eight of them seriously, after the bus they were travelling in collided with a container truck at Maharajpur near Kanpur on Saturday, police said. The incident took place at around 5 pm on the Kanpur-Allahabad road when the bus was on its way to Fatehpur from here, they said. The eight seriously injured people, including the truck’s driver, have been admitted to the medical college, the SP said, adding the condition of some is said to be critical. Bodies of four men and a woman have been retrieved from the wreckage and have been sent for postmortem, the officer said. The road was blocked for several hours due to the accident, he said.

Source: Hindustan Times April 08, 2017 17:48 UTC