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“A 48-year-old autobus operator was charred to death, and astir 20 passengers were injured aft a double-decker autobus collided with an overturned sand-laden motortruck connected the Agra-Lucknow Expressway successful Firozabad aboriginal Friday (May 22, 2026),” constabulary said. The mishap took spot astatine astir 2.30 a.m. adjacent ‘kilometre 46’ marker nether the Matsena constabulary presumption area.
“The sleeper bus, which was heading to Gurugram from Kanpur, rammed into the dumper that had turned upside down aft hitting the divider,” the constabulary said.
The collision triggered a abbreviated circuit that acceptable the autobus connected fire, forcing passengers to interruption the model panes and leap out. The deceased operator was identified arsenic Shambhu, a nonmigratory of the Bari country successful Kanpur.
City Superintendent of Police Ravi Shankar Prasad and metropolis Magistrate Vinod Kumar Pandey told reporters that astir 40 to 45 passengers were connected the autobus astatine the clip of the accident.
"Twenty passengers were injured successful the accident, of whom 7 earnestly injured persons were admitted to Firozabad hospital, portion others were referred to Saifai," the SP said. It took occurrence tenders astir 3 hours to bring the blaze nether control. The driver's assemblage was sent for a post-mortem.
