Banda (UP), February 24 Three men riding a motorcycle were killed after being hit by a sleeper bus in the Lalitpur district of Uttar Pradesh, police said on Tuesday.
The accident occurred around 9 pm on Monday near a petrol pump in the Madawara police station area, according to Deputy Superintendent of Police (Madawara) Rajesh Kumar Srivastava.
He said a sleeper bus ran over the motorcycle carrying three young men. Police rushed to the scene and took the injured to a hospital, where doctors pronounced all three dead.
The deceased were identified as Jaidev (30), a resident of Hilgan Bamhori; Alok (18), a resident of Bamhori Kalan; and Rajkumar (19), a resident of Pipariya Jagir, he said.
The officer said the sleeper bus was travelling from Prithvipur in Madhya Pradesh to Indore via Madawara with passengers on board.
After the accident, the driver and conductor abandoned the bus and fled the scene, he added.
Police have seized the bus and sent the bodies for postmortem.
