When police in an Indian town stopped a speeding tuk-tuk (auto-rickshaw), they were surprised to find how many people were crammed into the small vehicle.
A video showing 27 people, including children and the elderly, disembarking from the auto-rickshaw in Fatehpur has gone viral on social media.
It shows a policeman counting each passenger as they exit the vehicle.
An auto-rickshaw can generally carry three people, but some are modified to seat up to six passengers.
The incident involving the overcrowded vehicle has been reported from Fatehpur, a town in India’s most populated state of Uttar Pradesh.
According to media reports, when police tried to flag down the autorickshaw for over-speeding, the driver tried to speed away. Police then chased it down and forced it to stop.
The police were “shocked to see over two dozen passengers inside”, Rajesh Kumar, superintendent of Fatehpur police, told the Times of India newspaper.
The autorickshaw has been seized for violating the speed limit and for overloading.
On social media, videos of the incident have been watched tens of thousands of times and many Twitter users have posted rib-tickling comments in response to the visuals.
Some said the incident was deserving of a “world record”, while others used it to make a point about India’s inadequate transport facilities.
BBC/Simeon Ugbodovon
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