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The toll successful the multi-vehicle pile-up connected the Yamuna Expressway successful Mathura has risen to 19, officials said connected Thursday (December 18, 2025).
District Magistrate Chandra Prakash Singh told PTI Videos that 4 of the deceased person been identified, portion DNA samples of the remaining victims person been collected and are being matched.
"Nineteen radical person mislaid their lives successful the accident. Identification of 4 victims has been completed and DNA samples of the remaining bodies person been taken," helium said.
Mr. Singh said astir 90 radical were injured successful the accident, astir of whom person returned location aft receiving aesculapian attention. "Only six injured persons are presently successful hospitals undergoing treatment," helium added.
The mishap occurred connected Tuesday erstwhile 8 buses and 2 smaller vehicles collided connected the expressway, triggering a monolithic fire. Several bodies were severely charred, making ocular recognition hard and necessitating DNA profiling, officials said.
District officials said DNA samples of 12 persons, whose household members are inactive missing, person been collected and sent for forensic examination. So far, 4 bodies person been identified, portion relatives of 3 victims are yet to travel forward, they said.
The samples person been sent to the Forensic Science Laboratory and recognition volition beryllium confirmed aft matching them with those provided by claimants.
To forestall specified accidents successful future, the authorities authorities has issued a acceptable of directions, including question of vehicles successful convoys, suspension of postulation erstwhile visibility is highly debased and installation of CCTV cameras on the expressway, the DM said.
Singh added that a probe into the incidental has been ordered nether the supervision of Additional District Magistrate (Administration) Amresh Maurya.
