Muzaffarnagar:

Seven people, including a police constable and his wife, were killed in separate road accidents on the Delhi-Dehradun national highway in Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar in the last 24 hours, police said on Tuesday.

Constable Sudhir Kumar (28) and his wife Sonia (26) were killed when their motorcycle was hit by a truck on Tuesday. Due to the collision, a portion of the truck caught fire and the couple were trapped under the vehicle, they said.

A fire brigade was rushed to the spot to control the blaze. Mr Kumar was posted in Moradabad district, Circle Officer (Nai Mandi) Rupali Rao said.

The truck driver fled the scene. The bodies have been sent for post-mortem examination, police said.

In the second incident, Ishwar Dayal (25) and Sandeep Verma (28) were killed when their motorcycle was hit by a speeding unidentified vehicle near a Mahindra showroom under the Mansurpur police station area on Tuesday, police said.

Mr Dayal and Mr Verma were travelling from Muzaffarnagar to Khatauli when the accident occurred. The driver of the other vehicle fled the scene. The bodies have been sent for post-mortem, Circle Officer Ramashish Yadav said.

In the third incident, three men — Sorabh Pal (26), Daksh Saini (25) and Krishan (23) — died after their motorcycle was hit by a speeding truck near Mansurpur distillery late Monday night. The truck driver managed to escape, he said.

Police said all three incidents are being investigated and efforts are being made to arrest the drivers involved in the hit-and-run cases.

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Shahjahanpur (Uttar Pradesh):

At least 11 people died and 10 were injured after a truck turned turtle on top of a bus carrying devotees to Uttarakhand on Saturday late at night, said police.

According to the police the incident happened under Khutar police station in Shahjahanpur district when a truck loaded with ballast stones hit the parked bus at a roadside dhaba and overturned on it, crushing the devotees to death.

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All the devotees traveling in the bus were residents of Jetha village located in the Kamlapur police station area of Sitapur district.

Ashok Kumar Meena, SP, Shahjahanpur said, “Around 11 pm, we got the information that in the Khutar PS area, a bus was parked, devotees who were going to Purnagiri were sitting inside the bus and some devotees were having food at a Dhaba. A truck lost control and turned turtle on top of the bus… A total of 11 people died and 10 were injured. All injured have been admitted to hospitals…”.

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