Man taking daughter’s body dies in accident

Mathura: A man transporting his 17-year-old daughter’s body from Delhi to Bhopal died when the ambulance he was in rammed into a stationary truck on the Yamuna Expressway here on Tuesday.

Police identified the victim as Mukesh, a resident of Bhopal. His body has been sent to the Mathura district hospital for autopsy.

Witnesses told police that the ambulance driver appeared to have lost control of the vehicle and hit the truck. Three others in the ambulance were seriously injured.

The teenaged girl whose body he was taking had died in Delhi on Monday.

–IANS