Six journalists were killed and three others injured in two separate road accidents on Yamuna Expressway within a span of eight hours. Divyanshu (30), Manoj Kumar (27), Nakul Shukla (33) and 35-year-old Umesh Kumar Singh, all Delhi residents and working for a Hindi daily, were killed on the spot on Sunday night when their vehicle hit a divider and landed on the other side of the road in Surir area on the expressway, police said on Monday. Their vehicle was also hit by another car coming from opposite side and its three occupants were injured.
In other accident, two journalists from Mumbai working in a TV news channel were killed this morning when their car rammed into a truck parked on the roadside near Chandpur Khurd village in Naujheel area, they said. Forty-year-old Vikas Singh and Minag Salokar (28) were going to Agra when they met with the accident, police said.