Five people, including two drivers, died in a collision between a Tamil Nadu government bus and a private vehicle near Vaniyambadi of Thirupathur District, police said.
Police station in-charge Inspector Jaswinder Singh said, "A car was coming from the Makhu side while the truck loaded with paddy was coming from the Moga side. Due to the collision between a truck and a car, five youths died on the spot."
At least three people were killed and four others were injured following a head-on collision between a truck and a car in Assam's Udalguri district on Sunday morning.
Following the attack on a 66-year-old Sikh man after a car collision, a New York City man has been accused and charged on a slew of charges, including hate crimes, reported CNN citing prosecutors.
According to District Magistrate, Badaun, Manoj Kumar, "The road accident took place when both the bus and van carrying school students collided with each other on Mayun Nabiganj Road in the Usawan police station area of Badaun district."
Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury slammed the Central government on Andhra Pradesh's train accident and said, where are your anti-collision devices which were meant to prevent these kinds of accidents?
Biswajit Sahu, Chief Public Relations Officer of East Coast Railway said that the rescue operation is over and the focus has now shifted to track restoration work.
"Frontal collisions between trains, derailment of compartments, helpless passengers trapped in coaches and succumbing to fate: this is becoming a most unfortunate repetitive trope!!," Mamata added.