At least 40 pilgrims, including women and children, were injured when their bus crashed into a tree in the Ratanpura area in the early hours of Sunday (March 29, 2026), police said.
The bus was going to Ballia from Ayodhya.
The accident occurred around 1.30 a.m. on the Ratanpura-Mubarakpur road under the Haldharpur police station area when the driver lost control of the bus and rammed it into a roadside tree, police said.
"The pilgrims were headed back home after attending a religious event in Ayodhya when the accident took place," a police official said.
The impact of the collision left the front portion of the bus badly mangled.
