Five people were killed and over 25 injured in a collision between two Haryana Roadways buses in Aligarh on Saturday.
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath expressed grief over the mishap and directed the local officials to extend all possible help and proper treatment to the injured.
According to reports, a tyre of one bus burst suddenly and it went out of control and collided with another bus near Karsua village in the Lodha police station area of Aligarh district around 2 pm.
Aligarh District Magistrate Chandra Bhushan Singh said the injured had been hospitalised and the Chief Minister's Office in Lucknow had been apprised of the situation.
"Four people died on the spot while one succumbed to injuries at the hospital. Around 25 to 30 other passengers were injured in the incident. Some of them are severely injured and have been rushed to the Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College," Singh told reporters.
Other injured are being treated at the district hospital and families of the victims are being contacted, he added.
The deceased were identified as Vijay Kumar (50), resident of Badarpur in New Delhi; Rajudeen from Ballabgarh in Haryana; Sunil Yadav (50), a resident of Atrauli in Aligarh; and one unknown male (35) and a woman (60).
Meanwhile, in another tragic incident reported from Sitapur, three sisters were hit by a speeding tractor-trolley loaded with sugarcane. While one was killed on the spot, the other was battling for life while the condition of the third was stated to be out of danger.
Reports said that all the three were returning after working in the field when the tractor-trolley hit them at Machhrehta locality on Friday evening.
Rampal Maurya, a resident of Kalupur, said that his daughters had gone to dig potatoes from the fields. He said that his eldest 17-year-old daughter Mohini died on the spot while 12-year-old Monika and 10-year-old Soni were admitted to the district hospital from where Monika was referred to the King George's Medical University Trauma Centre in Lucknow.
A case was registered in this regard and efforts were on to arrest the driver who abandoned the vehicle and escaped.