Over a dozen, including five in Hardoi and three siblings in Rae Bareli, were killed in separate road mishaps since Monday evening.
In the first incident, a car (WagonR ) hit an e-rickshaw in the Hardoi Kotwali Dehat area on Tuesday, leaving five people and as many injured. Hardoi SP Rajesh Dwivedi inspected the spot and confirmed five deaths. It was said that the car hit an e-rickshaw near Nayagaon. Three people died on the spot while two more succumbed to injuries in a hospital. Five others who were injured have been admitted to the district hospital. According to eyewitnesses, the e-rickshaw occupants were going home from Hardoi while the car was moving from Lucknow to Hardoi when the mishap occurred on Tuesday morning.
All the five deceased were travelling in the e-rickshaw. They were identified as Ram Dulari (38), her 3-year-old daughter Harshita, Shyam Singh (40), Ankur (17), and an unidentified person.
In another mishap in Rae Bareli, three siblings were killed while another was critically injured when their motorcycle was hit by a truck late Monday night. According to reports, Rajendra’s daughters Nancy (16), Himanshi (14) and son Aryan (8) — all residents of Manchitpur village of Mill Area police station area — had gone to their maternal uncle’s house in Rahi village. They were returning with their cousin Chandrabhan on his motorcycle. On the way, a speeding truck hit the motorcycle near Dighia village. Chandrabhan, Nancy and Himanshi died on the spot. Aryan, who was grievously injured, was taken to the district hospital from where he was referred to the KGMU Trauma Centre in Lucknow.
Police registered a case in this regard and launched a manhunt for the errant truck driver while the bodies were sent for autopsy.
In another accident on the Sultanpur-Lucknow-Varanasi National Highway, a bike collided with a pick-up vehicle. A truck coming from behind crushed them. Two of them died on the spot. The accident occured in front of Kisan Dhaba near Bhadaiya Gram Panchayat of Lambhua Kotwali area. The information was passed on to the Kotwali police station after which cops reached the spot and sent the bodies for autopsy. The injured person was also shifted to a hospital.
Police station incharge Shivakant Tripathi said a manhunt had been launched for the errant truck driver who had fled the spot following the incident. The deceased were identified as Ramesh Maurya of Bhadaiya and Triveni of Babhangawan. The injured youth was identified as Vikas, a resident of Jhawara (Sultanpur).
Meanwhile, three people, including an infant, were killed in a car-bike collision in Behat area on Delhi-Yamunotri highway in Saharanpur. The accident occurred on the police station highway in Jatowala village. Naseem (26), his sister-in-law Tarannum (25) and four-month-old nephew Aslam died on the spot.
In Bijnor, a labourer died and two others critically injured when a heavy panel fell on them while working on the boiler in a sugar mill in Changipur village under Noorpur police station on Tuesday afternoon.
Reports said that construction work was going on in the Bindal Sugar Mill in Changipur village. On Tuesday afternoon, some labourers were working on a heavy iron panel near the boiler. Umesh Vishwakarma of Kushinagar and others got buried under the panel which fell all of a sudden. They were pulled out and taken to a hospital in Moradabad.
Umesh Vishwakarma (41) was pronounced brought dead while the treatment of other labourers was going on.
Jugnu, the brother-in-law of the deceased, said that on Monday, the support under the panel was cut off by supervisor Tej Pratap. The labourers were not aware of that and the accident occurred as a result, he alleged. On behalf of Jugnu, a complaint was given to the police against the supervisor and Kushwaha Engineering Company engaged in the construction work. The cops sent the body for autopsy and started further investigation.
