India, Nov. 6 -- More than 40 passengers were injured, with several of them critical, after a private double-decker sleeper bus travelling from Delhi to Varanasi overturned into a deep ditch on the Agra-Lucknow expressway near Aliyarpur village in Unnao district early on Thursday.

According to the police, the accident took place around 2.30am 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 Uttar Pradesh Expressways Industrial Development Authority (UPEIDA) and local police rushed to the spot. "All injured passeng...