Agra/Lucknow, Feb. 8 -- Twelve people were killed in three road accidents in Uttar Pradesh's Mathura, Hardoi and Etah districts on Saturday.

In Mathura, six people were killed and three others injured when a speeding truck ran them over after crashing into a bus parked on the Yamuna Expressway in the early hours of Saturday, police officials said.

The deceased and injured were passengers of the private sleeper coach bus that had taken a break near Milestone 88 within the Sureer police station limits.

The bus, with over 40 passengers on-board, was going to Kanpur Dehat from Delhi when the mishap occurred around 2.45am, said district magistrate Chandra Prakash Singh, who was at the hospital where one of the three injured was admitted, ad...