The accident took place on the Nanpur-Chandausi section of the Moradabad-Agra highway
Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh:
At least 10 people were killed and about a dozen injured when a private bus collided with a truck on the Moradabad-Agra highway in Uttar Pradesh this morning due to poor visibility due to heavy fog, an official said.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath expressed his regret and announced financial aid of 2 lakh rupees for the families of those who died and 50,000 rupees for the wounded.
Top police and administration officials, including District Magistrate Rakesh Kumar Singh and Senior Police Superintendent Prabhakar Chaudhary, have arrived on the scene.
The accident took place around 8 am on the stretch of the Nanpur-Chandausi highway near the village of Manpur below the area of the Kundarki police station in Uttar Pradesh’s Moradabad, Singh said.
A rescue operation is underway and the injured have been admitted to a nearby government hospital, Singh said.
The bodies have been sent for a forensic examination, he added.
In a series of tweets in Hindi, the chief minister’s office said Yogi Adityanath has directed officials to ensure proper treatment of the injured.
The Chief Minister, Yogi Adityanath, deeply mourned the deaths of people in the traffic accident in Moradabad. He has expressed his condolences to grieving families, praying for peace for the deceased, tweeted the Chief Minister’s Office.
The Chief Minister has instructed the district administration officials to provide adequate treatment to those injured in the accident and wishes them to recover quickly. He has ordered the wounded to receive 50,000 rupees and the family of the dead to receive 2 million rupees as financial aid, his office said in another tweet.
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