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Four killed as ambulance carrying soldier's remains crashes into truck in UP
A collision between an ambulance carrying a soldier's remains and a truck on the Purvanchal Expressway in Sultanpur, Uttar Pradesh, resulted in four fatalities.
A tragic accident on the Purvanchal Expressway in Sultanpur, Uttar Pradesh, resulted in the deaths of four individuals when an ambulance transporting the remains of a soldier collided with a truck on Sunday around 8:30 a.m.
Police reported that the ambulance was carrying the body of Army Subedar Satyavan Fauji from Lucknow to Ghazipur. The victims included the ambulance driver Jaspal, along with Rajan Singh, Gaurav Singh, and Ram Samajh, who were all passengers in the vehicle.
Emergency services responded promptly to the scene, and an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the crash is currently underway.
This incident follows another serious collision just days earlier, when a bus collided head-on with a trailer on the Gorakhpur Link Expressway in Ambedkar Nagar district. That accident, which occurred on Friday at approximately 5:30 a.m., also resulted in four deaths and left three others injured.
The police were alerted about the bus accident at that time through UP-112. Local villagers assisted first responders at the scene, facilitating a rescue operation to evacuate those trapped inside the bus and transport the injured to the Community Health Centre in Nagpur. Additional Superintendent of Police Dr. Tejveer Singh confirmed the details of the rescue efforts.
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