India, Nov. 6 -- KANPUR At least 21 passengers were injured, many of them seriously, after a private double-decker sleeper bus travelling from Delhi to Varanasi overturned into a ditch on the Agra-Lucknow Expressway near Aliyarpur village in Unnao district early on Thursday.

According to police, the accident took place around 2.30 am in the Hasanganj police station area when the speeding bus rammed into a loader carrying cabbages before losing control and plunging nearly 20 feet off the expressway. The impact left the vehicle badly damaged, with several passengers trapped inside.

Emergency teams from the UP Expressways Industrial Development Authority (Upeida) and local police rushed to the spot. "All injured passengers have been shifte...