In a road mishap as many as 11 persons including five women sustained severe injuries when a bus carrying pilgrims from Agra (Uttar Pradesh) collided head one with a truck at lavkush Chowraha in Sukhliya area. Of the injured, condition of a woman identified as Jamuna Devi is stated to be critical.
According to police, the incident occurred when bus number UP 83 T 1010 carrying pilgrims from Agra was on its way from Ujjain when it was hit by a speedily driven truck at lavkush Chowraha on MR 10. The impact of collision was so strong that seven bus passengers were thrown out of their windows and fell on the ground, thereby sustaining severe injuries.
In all a total of 11 persons including five women were injured in the incident. The injured have been identified as Kailawati, Pushpa Devi, Rambeti, Rajbala Sharma, Bhagwaan Shukla, Jamuna Devi, Kuldeep, Ramkumar Tiwari, Mukaam Singh, Digamber Singh, Ramsewak and Rajal. All of them have been admitted to MY hospital where condition of Jamuna Devi was stated to be critical till filing this report. After the mishap, truck driver fled the incident site.
According to eye-witnesses, after the mishap, all the injured remained seated on the road for fairly a long time before they were rushed to the hospital by a private hospital ambulance.
Police said the ill-fated bus which belonged to Sanjay Travels of Agra, had left Agra carrying 30 pilgrims. The pilgrims had left Agra on a pilgrimage of 12 ‘jyotirlingas’. In its pilgrimage, the bus had gone to Ujjain to enable pilgrims to have a darshan of lord Mahakaal. However, as the luck would have it, their pilgrimage was cut short by an unfortunate mishap here.