Pregnant woman among three killed as bus hits ambulance

Three people, including a pregnant woman, were killed when an ambulance in which they were travelling overturned after being hit by a bus here in the wee hours today, a police official said.

The 'Janani Express' ambulance (a government service to ferry pregnant women) was carrying the woman to a government hospital in Kailaras town near here around 3 am when the bus hit it, sub-divisional officer of police Sudhir Kushwaha said.

As a result, the ambulance overturned killing the woman and two other people, he said.

The deceased were identified as Suraksha Dhakad (22), her mother-in-law Gyaso Bai (55) and the ambulance driver, Bunty Dhakad (32), Kushwaha said.

 

The pregnant woman's husband and another relative were injured in the accident. They were admitted to a hospital where they were undergoing treatment, he said.

A search was on to nab the absconding bus driver, he added.