India, June 15 -- Five people were killed and one seriously injured after a speeding ambulance rammed into a jeep, which was parked on the Purvanchal Expressway in Uttar Pradesh's Amethi early Sunday morning, police said.

The ambulance was transporting the body of Ashok Kumar Sharma, a construction worker who was killed in a road accident in Gurgaon a day earlier, to Bihar for the funeral. Sharma's son, Satish Kumar Sharma alias Rajkumar, who works in Delhi, along with three relatives, was accompanying the body, Amethi additional superintendent of police (ASP) Shailendra Kumar Singh said.

"The deceased include Rajkumar, Ravi Sharma, Phulo Sharma, and the ambulance driver Sarfaraz and helper Abid. Shambu Rai was critically injured," he a...