Six dead, 47 injured in head-on collision in Uttar Pradesh

At least six construction workers were killed and 47 others injured when a tractor-trolley collided head-on with a truck at Haldaur-Nehtaur Road in Bijnore in Uttar Pradesh, police said on Tuesday.The mishap happened on Monday night when the workers in the tractor-trolley were returning to Nehtaur village from Chandpur where they were taken for work by a contractor,The collision of the tractor with the truck was so fierce that both the vehicles overturned into a roadside ditch after the accident, police said.According to statements of those injured, the number of those dead was nine, out of which six bodies were recovered by the police while another three are still lying under the overturned vehicles at the accident site. The injured, some of them in a serious condition, were admitted to district hospital, police said.