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Army Ambulance Carrying Soldier's Body Hits Truck on Purvanchal Expressway, Four Dead
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News18•04-10-2026, 15:26
Army Ambulance Carrying Soldier's Body Hits Truck on Purvanchal Expressway, Four Dead
- •Four people died in an accident on Purvanchal Expressway when an army ambulance carrying the body of Subedar Major Satyawan hit a parked truck.
- •The accident occurred near the 79.6 km mark of the expressway in the Haliyapur area, close to the Ayodhya-Sultanpur border.
- •The deceased's body was being transported from Chandigarh to his native village in Deoria district, Uttar Pradesh.
- •Subedar Major Satyawan's son Gaurav Singh (28), brother Rajan Chaudhary (35), nephew Ram Samujh Singh (40), and ambulance driver Jaspal (30) died in the collision.
- •Gaurav Singh and Jaspal died on the spot, while Rajan Chaudhary and Ram Samujh Singh succumbed to injuries at a hospital in Pithla-Kumarganj, Ayodhya district.
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The army ambulance lost control and collided with a parked truck on the roadside of the Purvanchal Expressway.
Four people died, including three family members of Subedar Major Satyawan (his son Gaurav Singh, brother Rajan Chaudhary, and nephew Ram Samujh Singh) and the ambulance driver, Jaspal.
The army ambulance was transporting the body of Subedar Major Satyawan from Chandigarh to his native village in Deoria district, Uttar Pradesh, when the crash happened near Sultanpur.
