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Police officers outside a hospital after an accident in Uttar Pradesh's Barabanki district on Wednesday.
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Twitter/ADG Zone Lucknow
At least 18 labourers resting on the side of a road were crushed to death under a bus in Uttar Pradesh’s Barabanki district on Wednesday, the police said. Twenty-five people were injured in the accident and have been moved to a hospital.
The accident took place on the Lucknow-Ayodhya national highway around 1.30 am, according to the
Hindustan Times.
Satya Narayan Sabat, the additional director general of police of Lucknow Zone, said the labourers, who are natives of Bihar, were returning from Punjab and Haryana on the bus. The police officer added that the axle shaft of the bus broke down, and the driver asked the passengers to step out of the vehicle so he could fix it.