The exact cause of the incident is yet to be determined. Authorities have begun rescue operations, and an investigation is underway to ascertain the details of the crash.
The accident occurred during the wee hours of Monday. Two people got injured and were taken to the hospital. The police have registered a case under relevant sections.
The truck overturned after it hit the divider during the early hours of Monday. While four people died on the spot, one other succumbed to his injuries in hospital.
So far, 14 deaths have been confirmed while 16 people have been rescued. The bus was reportedly en route to Kathmandu from Pokhara when it met with the road mishap, according to police.
The accident happened while the car was on its way to Hamirpur and collided with a truck. While four were killed, two others - a child and a woman were injured in the accident.
The deceased were going to Bageshwar Dham by taxi. The taxi was carrying 4 times more people than its capacity. The injured have been admitted to the district hospital for treatment.
Police have cleared the damaged vehicles from the road and are currently investigating the incident. Authorities are reviewing CCTV footage to determine the speed of the canter at the time of the crash and to gather more information on the cause of the accident.
Soon after the accident, a few locals called the police informing them about the fatal accident. After the arrival of police officials, they pulled out victims from the 200-foot-deep gorge.
Mani and his wife were driving their daughter to college in North Texas and had left their son behind because he started school that day. Witnesses claimed the vehicle passed them at a high speed before the collision.
A few locals came forward to victims after the fatal road accident. They called the police seeing several people trapped in the damaged vehicle. They took them to a nearby hospital.
The accident involved three vehicles, a truck, a pickup and a police vehicle. The truck driver who caused the accident fled the scene and the police are making efforts to track him down.
A multi-truck collision on the Mumbai-Agra Highway in Madhya Pradesh's Shajapur town resulted in the deaths of two truck drivers and left three others injured. The accident occurred as a mini truck hits an animal on the road, leading to a series of crashes.
Madhya Pradesh road accident: The truck hit the rear side of a container vehicle, and both caught fire. The container vehicle then hit six cars and a bus ahead, said inspector Pankaj Tiwari of Maheshwar police station.
The victims were pilgrims traveling to Jangli Baba Mandir for a religious ritual when they were struck by a speeding vehicle, the authorities mentioned.
According to eyewitnesses, the speeding truck rammed the devotees when they were going to a temple in Kokrajhar. In the holy month of Sawan, people, in a large number, visit the temples to offer prayers.
The students were travelling in the car on the Chennai-Tirupati National Highway when it rammed into a lorry near the Thiruthani area in Thiruvallur.
In the shocking hit-and-run case in Nagpur, the accused ran away after the accident leaving the injured family behind. However, some locals noticed them and took them to the hospital.
The accident occurred near the NRI Circle when a car collided with a truck carrying vegetables as it was making a turn. According to police, the impact was severe, and two of the car's occupants were critically injured.
Rajasthan road accident: The SHO said that all worked at nearby factories as labourers and were on the way to neighbouring Neemuch in Madhya Pradesh to meet a family relative when this incident took place.
Four people travelling in the bus while 3 travelling in the car have died in the accident. The accident happened on the Agra-Lucknow Expressway at 12:30 am on Sunday.
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