Overview
- Four people, including a 12-year-old, died and 21 were injured when a state bus and a milk tanker collided head-on near Samamai in Hathras, with officials saying the bus swerved to avoid a motorcycle.
- Police and district authorities in Hathras began a probe and moved the injured from a community health centre to the district hospital, with several referrals to Aligarh for advanced care.
- A 21-year-old student was killed and five others were hurt at Yamunanagar’s Partap Nagar bus stand after they fell while boarding an overcrowded Haryana Roadways bus; the driver and conductor were detained.
- Haryana Transport Minister Anil Vij ordered an inquiry, while Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini approved Rs 2.5 lakh for the deceased student’s family and Rs 50,000 each for the injured, along with free treatment.
- At least 21 passengers were injured in Unnao when a private double-decker sleeper bus struck a produce-laden pickup on the Agra–Lucknow Expressway, broke the divider and fell into a ditch, with police preparing negligence proceedings and shifting the seriously hurt to Lucknow.