Hathras (UP) | Six persons, including three women, were killed and as many injured after a double-decker sleeper bus hit a van on the Yamuna Expressway here on Tuesday, police said.
The accident occurred around 4.20 am in the Sadabad police station area, they said.
The van carrying 13 passengers was on its way from Prem Nagar in Delhi to Dholpur in Rajasthan when it was hit from behind by a sleeper bus travelling from Noida to Gorakhpur, Additional Superintendent of Police Ram Anand Kushwaha said.
All the occupants of the van were residents of Prem Nagar, Delhi, and belonged to different families travelling to Dholpur.
The accident left six people, including three women, dead. The driver of the van escaped unhurt, police said.
Six others, including three children, two men and a woman, suffered serious injuries.
The injured children were referred to SN Medical College in Agra for treatment, where two of them are stated to be out of danger.
On receiving information, Additional Superintendent of Police Ram Anand Kushwaha, the Circle Officer of Sadabad and the Station House Officer reached the spot with police personnel and shifted the injured to the hospital.
Further investigation into the incident is underway, police added
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