In a tragic incident, five members of a family, including two children, were crushed to death after a dumper loaded with fly ash overturned on their car in Rae Bareli district on Tuesday night.
Superintendent of Police Alok Priyadarshi and Circle Officer (City) Vandana Singh rushed to the spot late in the night and sent the bodies for post-mortem. Singh said efforts were on to nab the dumper driver.
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday expressed condolences over the death of five people in the road accident in Rae Bareli. “CM Yogi expressed immense grief over the death of people in the Rae Bareli road accident and prayed for peace to the souls. He also expressed condolences to the bereaved families,” the Chief Minister’s Office said in a tweet.
The chief minister also directed the district administration to provide appropriate treatment to all the injured people.
The incident occurred on Rae Bareli-Prayagraj National Highway 30 in Bhadokhar police station area. Reports said that Mahendra Agarwal, patron of Uttar Pradesh Udyog Vyapar Mandal and a leading merchant of Rae Bareli, his son Rakesh Agarwal (45) and daughter-in-law Sonam Agarwal (35), their two children Aditya (11) and Tansi (9), kin Rachit Agarwal and his wife Ruchika Agarwal (35) and two children Reyansh (6) Raisa (9), had gone for a dinner to celebrate a birthday at Baba Dhaba on Rae Bareli-Prayagraj highway, seven kilometres from Rae Bareli district headquarters.
All were returning home after having their food when a speeding dumper going towards Lucknow suddenly went out of control near Kripalu Institute and overturned on the car, crushing all the eight people in the car.
The local residents rushed to the spot and after failing to pull out the victims from the car, called the police. The cops removed the dumper from the car and pulled out the victims and rushed them to hospital where five of them were pronounced dead.
The deceased were identified as Rakesh Agarwal, Sonam Agarwal, Ruchika Agarwal, Raisa and Reyansh. Aditya, Tansi, and Rachit Agarwal were injured in the accident and are undergoing treatment.
In Mirzapur district, where a man and his son died in a road mishap, the local residents on Wednesday staged a demonstration outside the house of the accused driver whose SUV knocked down the father-son duo to death. The agitated mob also allegedly manhandled the family members of the driver before the police arrived and initiated legal proceedings.
Reports said that a speeding Scorpio hit the motorcycle-borne father-son duo near Kapsaur village under Padri police station of Mirzapur. The father died on the spot while the son was admitted in BHU hospital where he succumbed to injuries on Tuesday night.
The father was identified as Dudhnath Bind (57) and the son as Dharmendra.