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Purvanchal Expressway Crash Near Kurebhar, Sultanpur: One Labourer Dead and 16 Injured as an Unidentified Truck Hits a Trolley Carrying About 20 Workers Home for Chhath From Delhi to Saharsa, Six in Serious Condition, Truck Not Yet Traced

Cause not yet confirmed; police are trying to trace the unidentified truck and the cause. Reports say it hit from behind a trolley carrying about 20 labourers going home for Chhath. Lesson: a goods trolley is not meant to carry people, so festival travellers need a vehicle permitted to carry passengers. In the early hours or morning of Tuesday 10 November 2026, a truck hit from behind a trolley full of labourers on the Purvanchal Expressway in Sultanpur district, Uttar Pradesh. Dainik Bhaskar (Kurebhar, Sultanpur) says the crash happened at km 118.8 in the early hours (tadke) of Tuesday and that the workers were going from Delhi to Bihar for Chhath. Dainik Jagran (11.04 am IST) says the workers, 20 of them, were travelling from Delhi to Saharsa in Bihar in a tractor-trolley; the truck hit the trolley hard from behind and the workers were thrown onto the road. One worker died on the spot and 16 others were injured. Police took the injured to the Kurebhar community health centre, where Dr Zahir Khan's team gave first aid, and all 16 were referred to the government medical college; six are in serious condition, and Jagran says six were referred on to the Lucknow trauma centre. The Circle Officer, Baldirai, reached the hospital, and traffic on the expressway returned to normal. Jagran says police are trying to trace the unidentified truck that hit the trolley and to find out the cause. The Bhaskar page we could open shows only the opening lines. Amar Ujala headlines say the same toll of one dead and 16 hurt; a video headline says 10 or more injured. We give no names. Figures are from the reports opened on 10 November 2026 (IST) and may change.