Four persons were killed while over half a dozen other members of the family, including five children, were critically injured after they were buried under the rubble when the lintel of an under-construction house fell down over them early in the morning on Wednesday.
The accident took place in Mawai locality of Syana under Narsena police station of Bulandshahr.
The local police rushed to the spot and rescued the injured and shifted them to district hospital from where three of the injured were referred to medical college hospital in Meerut.
According to reports, the house of Rajpal Singh was being constructed. The old lintel was cast on the first floor of the house and the second floor was being constructed. At around 3 am on Wednesday, the lintel on the second floor fell on the roof of the first floor and the lintel on the first floor also collapsed under its weight.
Sub-Divisional Magistrate Arvind Kumar Singh and Circle Officer Bhaskar Kumar Mishra reached the spot and supervised the rescue operation carried out with the help of villagers.
The cops said that the family of Rajpal Singh was sleeping on the ground floor and all of them were buried under the rubble. They were rescued after removing the broken lintel with the help of a backhoe (JCB).
Those already dead till then were identified as Rajpal (52), his wife Sunita (50), their two children Dharmendra (19) and Kuldeep (25).
About eight other family members, including children, were rescued in serious condition and shifted to hospital.
District Magistrate Chandra Prakash Singh confirmed the incident.
Meanwhile in Maharajganj, the bodies of a man and his wife were recovered from the railway track near Gandhi Nagar under Siswa locality on Wednesday morning.
The local villagers spotted the bodies when they went for work and informed the local police which rushed to the spot and sent the bodies for post-mortem.
Both the bodies were badly crushed and found in pieces. It seems that either they committed suicide or failed to notice some speeding train and came under it.
A motorcycle having registration number UP56 AU 2332 was also found parked near the railway track. Some empty packets of liquor were also found nearby.
The cops searched the pocket of the deceased and with the help of Aadhaar cards, identified both the victims as 58-year-old Mohammad Sharif and his 55-year-old wife Quraisha of Pakdi Chaubey gram sabha under Kothibhar police station.
Kothibhar police station SO Sunil Kumar Rai said the deceased did not have children and were upset for the last few years. It seems that they both ended their lives, he added.
Further investigations are on.