UP: Woman killed, 21 others injured in truck-pickup vehicle collision
Meerut (UP) (PTI): A 50-year-old woman died, and 21 others were injured, when a truck hit a pickup vehicle from the side near a private hospital in Kharkhauda police station area of Meerut district, police said on Tuesday.
According to a police spokesperson, the passengers in the ill-fated pickup vehicle were returning from Syana in Bulandshahr district to their village in Meerut when the accident occurred late Monday evening.
Preliminary investigations indicate that the truck driver's speeding and negligence caused the accident.
Kharkhauda police station SHO Rajpal Singh said that the truck driver is absconding and is being searched for.
The deceased has been identified as Suresh (50), a resident of Meerut district, the SHO said, and added that the body of the deceased has been sent for post-mortem examination.
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Trump’s fresh threat to bomb Iran amid reports of deal to end war
Washington (PTI): US President Donald Trump on Wednesday threatened Iran with more bombing if it doesn't reopen the Strait of Hormuz, amid a report that the warring sides were nearing an agreement to end the war.
US media outlet Axios reported, quoting US officials and two other sources, that the US and Iran were getting close to a one-page memorandum of understanding to end the war and set a framework for more detailed nuclear negotiations.
The US expects Iranian responses on several key points over the next 48 hours, Axios reported, adding that nothing has been agreed yet. This was the closest the parties had been to an agreement since the war began.
"Assuming Iran agrees to give what has been agreed to, which is, perhaps, a big assumption, the already legendary Epic Fury will be at an end, and the highly effective Blockade will allow the Hormuz Strait to be OPEN TO ALL, including Iran," Trump said in a post on Truth Social.
"If they don’t agree, the bombing starts, and it will be, sadly, at a much higher level and intensity than it was before," Trump said.
According to Axios, the deal would involve Iran committing to a moratorium on nuclear enrichment, the US agreeing to lift its sanctions and release billions in frozen Iranian funds, and both sides lifting restrictions around transit through the Strait of Hormuz.
It said many of the terms laid out in the memo would be contingent on a final agreement being reached, leaving the possibility of renewed war or an extended limbo in which the hot war has stopped, but nothing is truly resolved.
