VARANASI, April 24 -- All 11 victims, including nine passengers of a Bolero, who were killed after a truck rammed into multiple vehicles and triggered a fire near Barka turn on the Mirzapur-Reeva national highway under Drummondganj police station area on Wednesday, have been identified, police said. Eight of the nine people onboard the Bolero were residents of Naraina village in the Jigna area of Mirzapur. They were identified as Bina Singh (40), Vandana (38), Pankaj (30), Piyush (18), Sonam (8), Priyanka Singh (42), Shiva (7) and Kartikeya Singh (18). The Bolero driver, Vishnu Singh (40), was a resident of Rampur Hanswar village. The truck cleaner, Vikas Sharma (32), was from Naya Kheda in Sagar, Madhya Pradesh, while the car driver, Jai Prakash (28), was a resident of Parsiya in Robertsganj, Sonbhadra. Circle officer of Lalganj Amar Bahadur confirmed the identities. Superintendent of police Aparna Rajat Kaushik said the truck's brakes failed at Badka turn, causing it to go out of control and collide with a car, a Bolero, and another truck. While the car got trapped between two trucks, the Bolero caught fire. Eleven people - nine in the Bolero, the car driver, and the truck cleaner - died in the incident. After the blaze was doused, nine charred bodies were recovered from the Bolero, including those of two women, two children and five men, making identification difficult initially. Lalganj CO said it took considerable time to ascertain the identities of the victims and inform their families, who were traced using the registration details of the vehicles. Post-mortem examinations of all bodies were conducted on Thursday, after which the bodies were handed over to their families. Police said all four vehicles involved have been identified. One truck was from Bihar and the other from Madhya Pradesh. The car was registered in Sonbhadra and the Bolero in Mirzapur. Further investigation is underway. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has expressed anguish and announced an ex gratia of Rs.2 lakh for the next of kin of each deceased and Rs.50,000 for the injured. Chief minister Yogi Adityanath too expressed grief over the incident. In a post on X, the chief minister termed the loss of lives "deeply tragic" and extended condolences to the bereaved families, while directing officials to ensure proper treatment of the injured....