"accident"

Passengers travelling in the bus escaped unhurt, a senior official said, adding that the driver of the bus fled the spot leaving behind the vehicle.

Other motorists passing by alerted the Abdullapurmet police, who retrieved the bodies from the car and shifted the injured to hospital.

The driver of the luxury car along with its two other occupants fled from the spot.

Both the vehicles were on the same lane from Noida to Agra when the incident took place near Chapargarh village in the Dankaur area.

The deceased were identified as Madishetti Sambalakshmi (65), Palakurti Sarojana (55) and Md Mehboobi (50) of Atmakur village.

The deceased were dentified as Manikanta, an employee of a pharmacy company and Sujith Reddy, a native of Ankireddygudem.

According to Munagala police, over-speeding was the cause of the mishap

Prima facie, it seems one of the tyres burst following which the vehicle overturned, the official said.

Six persons were killed and six others were injured after a lorry hit an autorickshaw in Andhra Pradesh's Nuzvid here in the wee hours of Sunday.

"The victims are identified as coolies from Lion Tanda village in Nuzvid Mandal", Nuzvid Rural Circle Inspector Venkata Narayana said.

Mohammed Altaf Ahmed (14) and Shoaib (20), both students and residents of Old Malakpet, were returning home on their motorbike after attending a marriage-related ceremony.

Police were still investigating the cause of the accident, but survivors told authorities that the vehicle's brakes apparently malfunctioned.

The incident took place on the Agra-Kanpur highway in the Etmadaula police station area around 5 am.

Sources said the incident occurred when the driver of one of the trucks lost control due to over-speeding and crashed into the other.

The accident occurred in Teesa sub-division in the morning, Chamba Superintendent of Police S Arul Kumar told PTI.

The man Sunil, who worked as a computer operator, was going on a motorcycle when he lost control of the bike and crashed into a road divider near Gandipet.

The rescuers are busy in relief activities, aided by the local people. Several people are still trapped inside the ill-fated train, Geo News reported.

The accident took place in the morning when a lorry hit a tractor on the road, Narayan Naik, Superintendent of Police, West Godavari informed.

The cause of the collision was unclear, authorities said, and it also was not immediately known why so many people were crammed into a vehicle built to hold eight people safely.

According to the report, the jeep driver was overspeeding and rammed the jeep into a cement bag-laden truck ahead of it.