Varanasi, April 27 -- In a devastating accident early on Saturday morning, four people, including a pregnant woman, lost their lives and two others sustained serious injuries when a gravel-laden truck overturned onto an ambulance on the Ahraura-Varanasi Shakti Nagar Road near an overbridge. The tragic incident took place when an ambulance, carrying a pregnant woman who had been referred from Lodhi Hospital in Sonbhadra to a hospital in Varanasi, was passing through the area.
Along with the pregnant woman, three of her family members were accompanying her in the ambulance. The vehicle was being driven by a professional ambulance driver, who was assisted by a colleague.
According to police sources, a truck transporting gravel from a crusher...