Panic gripped in a marriage ceremony when a jilted lover shot dead the bride and even her sister before firing at his own temple to commit suicide, in Bulundshahr on late Friday night.
Reports said that one Aditya Nagar (29), a resident of Hari Enclave area of Kotwali in Bulundshahr, was in love with 28-year-old Vandana, hailing from Awas Vikas Colony, also under Kotwali area. Nagar, who was class mate of Vandana, wanted to lure the girl for marriage but Vandana out rightly rejected his offer which upset the youth.
According to reports, the matter took an ugly turn when Nagar learnt that the parents of Vandana, had organised her engagement ceremony at a local guest house on Friday night. Nagar took a country made revolver and struck at the venue. He opened fire at Vandana, killing her on the spot. When Vandana’s younger sister Diksha, came to her rescue, the youth also opened fire at her in which she was critically injured.
later Nagar tried to escape but when he was rounded by other guests, he suddenly put the revolver at his temple and committed suicide. Injured Diksha was rushed to near-by nursing home where she was pronounced dead upon arrival. A case has been registered in this regard and all the three bodies were sent for post-mortem examination.
Meanwhile 15 persons were also killed in two separate incidents reported from Mirjapur and Shahjahenpur respectively. In the first incident reported from Mirzapur, eight persons, including two children, were killed and 10 injured when the tempo they were travelling collided with a truck on Shaktinagar-Varanasi National Highway on early Saturday morning. The incident took place when the tempo carrying passengers to a wedding function in Varanasi from Henauti village collided with the truck on the highway near Ghatampur village. While Kishori lal (55), Asha Devi (36), Neha (10), Soni(10), Uttam (16) and Rajesh (13) died on the spot and two others succumbed to their injuries on way to hospital. They are yet to be identified, police said. The injured have been admitted to hospital, they said, adding that the bodies had been sent for post-mortem.
In another incident reported from Shahjahenpur, seven people were killed and four injured in a collision between a truck (UP27T-3152) and a tempo (UP14-9412) on Saturday morning.All the seven, two of them children, died at the scene, police said adding the accident happened near Sarau culvert on Bareilly-Shahjahapur national highway. The injured were hospitalized to a near-by hospital. Drivers of both the vehicles fled and efforts were on to trace them, police said. Three of victims were identified as Smt Ashma (35), Mujamil (35), Saeeda (50), while efforts were made to maintain identity of the remaining deceased.