5 UP cops wounded in PCR van-DTC bus crash
New Delhi | Saturday, Nov 28 2009 IST
 

Five policemen were injured when a Police Control Room van they were travelling in hit a stationary DTC bus in New Delhi district this evening, police said. ''A Delhi Transport Corporation bus on route number 740 was parked at roadside near Gol Market roundabout when a PCR van of Uttar Pradesh police came rushing from the right side and rammed into it around 1900 hrs,'' a senior police official told UNI. He informed that six policemen were travelling in the van, of whom, five, including driver Om Prakash, were injured and admitted to Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital. ''Condition of one policeman is serious according to the doctor, while other four have already been discharged,'' he said.

According to police, Om Prakash was not able to apply the brakes of the van due to which the accident happened. They had come to Delhi for a search operation. The driver of the DTC bus was absconding and a hunt on to nab him, the official added.

Further investigations were on.

-- (UNI) -- 28DI35.xml

 

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