Lucknow: At least 18 migrant workers were destroyed to death when they slept while 25 injured critically, when a quick truck crashed into a stationary double-decker bus in the Ramsanehi Ghat area in Barabanki, a few hours after Tuesday midnight.
The bus, filled with 140 workers, was on his way from Ludhiana to Bihar when it was broken at night at the NH-28 in the stretch of Barabanki-Ayodhya.
With the AC does not work and Windows sealed, many passengers get off the bus stranded and fall asleep on the road while the driver rushes to repair a broken axle.
One hour later, a moving truck with high speed collided directly with the bus, destroying passengers to fall asleep on the road and leave the vehicle in a stack that was destroyed.
Bihar-bounds are employed in factories in Ludhiana, Punjab, and in Hisar, Haryana.
While 11 died in place, seven were declared dead at the district hospital.
Identity two are not confirmed.
Eleven injured was taken to the center of Trauma, Lucknow, the word Barabanki SP Yamuna Prasad.
President of RAM Nath Kovind, Prime Minister of Narendra Modi, Minister of Sehoan Home Amit Shah, Minister of Yogi Adityanath and Bihar CM Nith Kumar revealed sadness by losing life.
PM announced the Rupee 2 Lakh compensation for the deceased and 50,000 rupee relatives for injured.
Modi is also called Adityanath to ask about help operations.
CM direct the Cabinet Minister to reach the hospital and supervise medical assistance.
Nitish Kumar denied death and announced a 2 lakh ex-gratia rupee for KIN from each of the deceased.
Police said the bus and truck drivers were running around.
“The owner and manager Rishabh Travels, who run the air-conditioned bus, and the driver of the two vehicles has been ordered for death due to negligence, driving a rash, and under the section of the acts of epidemic disease and disaster management actions,” SP Barbanki said.
Mishri Lal (50), who survived the accident, told reporters that he fell asleep on the bus when the accident occurred.
“I wake up to see passengers throwing into the floor of the bus.
When we managed to break away from the rubble, we saw the cutting bodies scattered along the road and the injured crying in pain.
We tried to stop the vehicle, but it didn’t work.
Then us Blocking the highway with the body, triggered Gridlock.
That’s when a pedestrian called the police, “he said.
The complainant in this case, passenger Falgun Sahni (30) Sitamarhi, said the bus was overloaded and the driver had been looking for money from passengers for axle repair.
After the police received SOS, senior police and district officials rushed to a place to launch rescue operations.
Barbanki DM Adarsh ​​Singh oversees rescue operations and arranged the bus to Bihar for other passengers.
“We form a panel of doctors to do an autopsy and simultaneously send the body to Bihar,” he said.
BSP Supremo Mayawati asked the government to provide free care to those who were injured and sent the body to the house at the cost of government.
The Head of the Jamajwadi Party Akhilesh Yadav, also, appealed to the government to ensure the treatment of injured officials and sent the party to visit them in the hospital.
Congress Secretary General Priyanka Gandhi urged party workers to provide assistance to accident victims.
Eyewitness accountant.
Kumar Kumar (18) Sitamarhi said he and his friends got on the bus in Ludhiana, but when he reached Hisar, the conductor stopped the vehicle in the middle and forced us to the Double Decker bus with bad luck nearby.
Other people were injured, Shambhu (29) from Madhubani, said passengers were forced to spread the sheets and slept on the road when it was astonished on the bus with a closed window.
“When the rain starts to fall, some of them take refuge under the bus,” he said.
Helpline number police have issued a Helpline number – 9454417464 – for any questions about the dead and injured.
Almary identified including Suresh Yadav (35) from Madhepura, Indal Mahato (25), Gagandev (35), Rajdev Mahato (60), Monu Sahni (30), Jagdish (40), Shanishchar (50), Shanishchar (50)) and Masters Mandal (60) from Sitamarhi, Sikandar Mukhiya (40) and Akhilesh Mukhiya (30) from Saharsa, Jai Bahadur (40), Baijnath RAM (55) and Balram Mandal (55) of SUPULUL, and Santosh Singh (30) and Baurwa (30) from Araria.