Lucknow, February 23 Five people were killed and at least 14 were injured when a double-decker bus overturned near the toll on the Purvanchal Expressway here on Monday evening after the driver lost control of the vehicle, police said.
According to officials, 80-85 passengers were on board the bus, which was travelling from Ludhiana in Punjab to Motihari in Bihar, when the accident occurred.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (South), Lucknow, Nipun Agarwal, said that after receiving information about the accident at the Gosainganj police station, police and administration officials, along with ambulances, reached the scene.
"In this accident, five people – one man, one woman, and three children – died. The injured persons have been taken to trauma centres at SGPGI (Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences) and KGMU (King George's Medical University), and their condition is reported to be stable," Agarwal said.
A case has been registered in connection with the incident.
Additional DCP (South) Rallapalli Vasanth Kumar told