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Uttar Pradesh accident: 15 injured in collision between tractor-trolley, bus in Saharanpur

Updated on: 22 October,2023 05:08 PM IST  |  Saharanpur (UP)
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Uttar Pradesh accident: As many as fifteen people were injured when their tractor-trolley collided with a roadways bus

Uttar Pradesh accident: 15 injured in collision between tractor-trolley, bus in Saharanpur

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Uttar Pradesh accident: As many as fifteen people were injured when their tractor-trolley collided with a roadways bus in Saharanpur district of Uttar Pradesh, police said on Sunday, reported the PTI.


According to the news agency, the superintendent of Police (Rural) Sagar Jain told PTI that 18 devotees from Muzaffarnagar were going to visit a temple here on Saturday evening when the tractor-trolley they were travelling in collided with a roadways bus in Deoband area.


Police and locals rushed the injured to hospital and those in critical condition were referred to a higher centre for better treatment, he said.


Jain said the bus driver and conductor have been taken into custody.

Meanwhile, in an another incident in Maharashtra, a training aircraft belonging to a private aviation academy crashed near a village in Maharashtra's Pune district on Sunday morning, injuring a trainee pilot and an instructor on board the plane, police said. The aircraft crashed near Gojubavi village under Baramati taluka at around 8 am, news agency PTI reported.

"A training aircraft, belonging to the Redbird Flight Training Academy, crashed near Gojubavi village. A trainee pilot and an instructor suffered injuries in the crash. Both have been rushed to a nearby hospital," PTI quoted Baramati police station's senior inspector Prabhakar More as having said. "The cause of the crash is not yet known. We are conducting a probe into the incident," he said.

This is the second such incident involving the private aviation academy's aircraft in four days.

On October 20, Thursday, a training aircraft belonging to a private aviation academy crashed near a village in the district, injuring the pilot who was the only one on board the plane.

Police had earlier in the day said besides the pilot, one more person was on board the plane, and after the crash, they were rushed to a nearby hospital. However, they later maintained that information gathered by them indicated besides the pilot, no one else was inside the aircraft.

The aircraft, belonging to the Redbird Flight Training Academy, crashed near Katfal village under Baramati taluka of the western Maharashtra district, said the police.

(with PTI inputs)

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