LUCKNOW, Dec. 3 -- Three passengers were burnt alive and 24 others sustained burn injuries after a Delhi-bound private bus caught fire following a collision with a truck in Uttar Pradesh's Balrampur district after Monday midnight, senior police officials confirmed on Tuesday. They added that six of the injured are in critical condition and have been referred to Bahraich Medical College for treatment. According to local police officials, the bus, carrying 45 passengers, most of them Nepal nationals, had departed from Sonauli near the Nepal border and was en route to Delhi. The accident occurred on the Phulwaria bypass under Kotwali Dehat police station limits around 2:30 am. Survivors alerted the police, and multiple fire brigade teams rushed to the spot, battling the blaze and rescuing those trapped. Eyewitnesses reported that the truck was speeding from the direction of the Phulwaria overbridge when it rammed directly into the bus at the Phulwaria crossing. "The impact was so severe that the bus skidded nearly 100 metres and crashed into an electric pole, causing live wires to fall and triggering a short circuit," one of the eyewitnesses informed the local police....