Sultanpur, February 23: An elderly man was run over by a speeding bus on the Prayagraj-Ayodhya national highway, police said on Sunday Janeshwar Kumar Tyagi (74) was hit by a speeding bus while crossing the road near a hotel here on Saturday night.

Station House Officer (SHO) of Kotwali Dehat Police station, Naradmuni Singh said locals rushed him to a hospital where doctors declared him dead. The body has been sent for postmortem. Hamirpur Road Accident: 2 Killed in Head-On Collision Between 2 Trucks in Sumerpur Area of Uttar Pradesh.

A resident of Thane, Maharashtra, Tyagi along with his wife, son and daughter-in-law, was staying at a hotel here after his visit to the Maha Kumbh Mela in Prayagraj. The family had stopped at the hotel en route to Ayodhya.

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