NRI duo killed in Yamuna e-way crash

A 70-year-old Gujarati man and his son, both NRIs based in the United States, died in an accident on the Yamuna expressway as their hired vehicle rammed a mini-truck around 6am on Wednesday.

Raojibhai Patel (70) and son Shailesh (45) were on a road trip in India with other family members and were headed for Agra to see the Taj Mahal. The four other family members in their hired minibus — Lalita (65), Dhara (28), Shreya (19) and Partha (14) — sustained severe injuries and were rushed to a hospital in Greater Noida by an expressway rescue team. The impact of the collision was such that the rescue team had to bring cranes to rescue those trapped inside the wreckage.