Uttar Pradesh: Road crash leaves three kanwariyas dead

Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh: A speeding ambulance collided head-on with a motorcycle and a scooty, leaving three kanwariyas dead and another injured, police said on Sunday.

Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Rural, Surendra Nath Tiwari said the accident took place in front of a restaurant on the Delhi-Meerut Road near Kadrabra at around 11.45 pm on Saturday.

The four kanwariyas were going to Haridwar to bring Ganga water, while the ambulance was coming from the opposite direction after dropping a patient at a hospital in Meerut.

The DCP said the injured were taken to a private medical college hospital, where doctors declared three of them dead.

Tiwari said the deceased have been identified as Ritik (23), Abhinav (25) and Sachin (38), all residents of Ghaziabad. The injured person has been identified as Ajay (30).

The ambulance has been seized and the driver Monu has been arrested and legal action is being taken in this case.

The bodies of the deceased have been sent for postmortem.