Nine persons including a sub-inspector on poll duty lost their lives in three separate incidents reported from Jaunpur, Faizabad, and Chitrakut respectively on Thursday.
In the first incident reported from Jaunpur, one Amirut Sherkhan, a sub-inspector of 6th battalion of Karnatka Reserve Police Force from Kalbugri district, was going to attend the call of nature after depositing EVM machines in Saheen locality of the district, when a speeding truck (UP62T-6331) crushed him to death on Thursday morning. The truck driver later also lost control of the vehicle and rammed with a side tree in which he was also killed. The driver was identified as Sobhnath Yadav, a resident of Sarai Khawja area also in Jaunpur. A case has been registered and both the bodies were sent for post-mortem examination.
In another case reported from Faizabad, 3 persons lost their lives while four others received injuries when a car of Baratis dashed into tractor-trolley in Maharajganj area on Thursday morning. Reports said that a car of Baratis dashed into stationary tractor-trolley laden with bamboos on Faizabad-Ambedkarnagar national highway near Purabazar area. Three persons died on the spot in the accident while four other got injured. Injured were rushed to hospital. A case was also registered in this regard.
In the last case, 4 persons including 3 kids died when wall of earthen house collapsed in Mau area of Chitrakoot district also on Thursday. Superintendent of Police in Chitrakut, Dinesh Pal Singh said that house of Ayodhya Prasad was closed from long time in Vinayaka village. That house collapsed under which Ansh Pandey (5), Sonam (7), Saumya (5) and Guddi (35), who were sitting under it got trapped and were buried alive. Their bodies were later taken out and sent for post-mortem examination. Some social organisations later demanded compensation for the families of the deceased who lost their kin in the mishap.
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