At least seven people, including two children and three women, were burnt to death in a collision between a car and a truck in Sikar district of Rajasthan. police he said, PTI reported.
The passengers of the car, all residents of Meerut in Uttar Pradesh, were heading towards Hisar from Salasar Balaji temple when the accident occurred, they said.
“Near Arshiwad Pulia, the car rear-ended a moving truck, after which it caught fire. Seven people, including three women and two children, who were in the car died,” said deputy superintendent of police ( Fatehpur Circle), Rampratap Bishnoi. according to the PTI.
The passengers were unable to open the doors of the vehicle due to the fire and were burnt alive, he said, adding that efforts were being made to identify them.
Four dead after car falls into river in Bageshwar, Uttarakhand
In another incident, four people, including two brothers, died when their car fell into a river in Uttarakhand’s Bageshwar district in the early hours of Sunday, PTI reported on Sunday.
The accident occurred on the Rima-Gharamghar road near Chidag around 4 am, Bageshwar Kotwali Station House Officer (SHO) Kailash Negi said.
The car fell about 250 meters down the road into the river, he said.
In the accident, all the occupants of the vehicle were seriously injured.
Police and State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) personnel, with the help of locals, pulled them out of the river and rushed them to a hospital where they were declared brought dead, the officer said.
The victims were identified as Kamal Prasad, Niraj Kumar, Dipak Arya and Kailash Ram, aged between 25 and 30, Negi said.
Niraj and Dipak were brothers, the SHO added.
The families of the victims have been informed.
The victims were residents of Vadyuda Rima and Junyal Dofad, the officer said.
34 injured in bus accident in Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh
Meanwhile, around thirty-four people were injured when a Himachal Road Transport Corporation (HRTC) bus collided with a accidentofficials said on Sunday, according to PTI.
The accident took place at Tiale Da Ghat near Bhota Kaswa, about 16 kilometers from Hamirpur, on Saturday night, they said.
According to eyewitnesses, a car suddenly overtook the bus while it was taking a sharp bend near Tiale Da Ghat. To save the car, the driver turned the bus to the left and hit a hill, causing the accident.
Officials said the Hamirpur-Vrindaban bound bus was carrying around 50 passengers, of which nine people, including the driver, sustained serious injuries and are undergoing treatment at Hamirpur Medical College.
The driver had to be removed from the bus by cutting off the steering wheel, they added.
According to officials, the other 25 injured passengers were sent to Bhota hospital in Hamirpur district for treatment.
A police team led by ASI Rajesh Kumar reached the spot and carried out relief and rescue operations. The local business community also helped them.
Police said a case has been registered in the incident and investigations are underway, the news agency reported on Sunday.
(with PTI inputs)