18 labourers, sleeping on the road in front of a bus, were crushed to death this morning by a speeding truck in Uttar Pradesh's Barabanki district, 28 km from state capital Lucknow.
The labourers, who are from Bihar, were returning from Haryana when their bus broke down on a highway last night. They then slept on the road in front of the bus.
The double-decker bus, was parked on the side of the road with passengers inside it. The truck hit the bus from behind, crushing the labourers to death.
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