AMBALA: A trailer truck hit a passenger bus from behind on the Yamuna Nagar-Panchkula highway in Haryana's Ambala, killing up to seven people and injuring four more.
The incident occurred on Friday while the bus travelling from Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh (UP) to the industrial town of Baddi in neighbouring Himachal Pradesh.
The injured were immediately transferred to a hospital nearby.
The bus was hit from behind by a loaded trailer truck, according to Bir Bahan, Shahzadpur Police Station SHO.
He added that the collision was so violent that the trailer truck overturned on the wrong side of the road. "Prima facie, it appears that the truck driver dozed off on the wheels and ended up ramming into the bus," he said.
There is no threat to either vehicle's driver. He said that an additional inquiry into the event is ongoing.
According to reports, the majority of the passengers aboard the sleeper bus with a Baghpat registration were migrant workers going back to work.
A couple from the Sambhal area of Uttar Pradesh, Jwala, 34, and Rinki, 32, along with their two children, Prince, 8, and Prashant, 6, were among the fatalities.
Rahish Khan and Badan Singh, both from Budaun in UP, were identified as the other two dead, but the identity of the seventh victim is still unknown.
Both the bus driver and the truck driver, Chander Mohan, made it out safely.
304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder), 279 (rash driving), 283 (danger or obstruction in a public way or line of navigation), 304-A (causing death by negligence), 337 (causing hurt by an act endangering the life or personal safety of others), and 338 (causing grievous hurt by an act endangering the life or personal safety of others) were all charges filed against the bus and truck drivers at the Shahzadpur police station.
They haven't been detained yet.
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