Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath today expressed his condolences over the loss of lives in the collision between a truck and a passenger bus in Uttar Pradesh's Barabanki and announced an ex-gratia of Rs 2 lakhs for the kin of the deceased.

In a tweet in Hindi,  Yogi Adityanath said "The death of people in the road accident in district Barabanki is very sad. My condolences are with the bereaved families of the deceased. Praying to Lord Shri Ram to grant peace to the departed souls and speedy recovery to the injured.”

As per reports, 9 people were killed and 27 others were said to be seriously injured after a truck and a passenger bus collided in Uttar Pradesh's Barabanki district. The injured had been shifted to a local hospital.” The rescue teams have rushed the injured people to a local hospital; those gravely wounded have been shifted to the KGMU trauma centre in the state capital, Lucknow, while others are undergoing treatment at a Barabanki district hospital.

According to privy with the development, the bus was on the way from Delhi to UP's Bahraich via Lucknow when it collided head-on against the truck, resulted in the death of the passengers. The tourist bus reached Baburi village on Kisan Path in the Deva Kotwali area around 5.30 am on Thursday when a truck heading towards it from the opposite end “suddenly went berserk” and collided against it head-on.

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