Ten persons including two officials on election duty were killed in separate roads mishaps reported since Monday night.
In Barabanki, Auditor in District Panchayat, Uday Raj Singh, District Panchayat Officer Rampujan Verma and others were heading to Ramnagar block for poll duty in a car (UP32DM3281)
when the car collided with a tractor-trolley near Sahavpur village, on Tuesday morning. Both Singh and Verma died on the spot whereas a Jal Nigam junior engineer, lalit Aditya and two others suffered injuries. The officers were going to oversee the process of filing nominations.
In lakhimpur Kheri, four persons were killed while two others seriously injured in separate road mishaps.
local scribe Gyanendra Singh (28) was killed when his bike collided with a two-wheeler coming from the opposite direction while he was returning home late Monday night.
Elsewhere, Pushpendra Singh (32) and his brother Upendra were riding a two-wheeler which rammed into another vehicle. The injured were rushed to a hospital where Pushpendra was declared brought dead while his brother was critical.
In another accident in Sampurnanagar, Madhav (24) and Chillo (21) were killed after a speeding jeep ran over them while their friend Moti lal was seriously injured on Tuesday morning. The jeep driver fled the spot leaving the vehicle. The three were residents of Dinapur in Nepal and were waiting for a vehicle to drop them at the border.
In Ballia, two minor sisters were charred to death while their parents and younger brother were critically injured when a fire broke out at their house in Eksar village.
The fire broke out in the house of Shahzad Qureishi killing his daughters Yasmin (12) and Aafrin (9) who got trapped inside late on Monday night. Shahjad, his wife Rehana and son Asif (7) too suffered serious burns in the incident. Condition of Shahzad and Rehana were critical.
Meanwhile in Meerut, a two-year-old boy was killed when he
drowned in a water-filled tub at his home at New Govindpuri area. As per reports, Daksh was playing when his toy fell into the tub filled with water. As he tried to salvage the toy, he fell into the tub and drowned. The parents were not home when the incident took place and when they returned and found him in the tub, they rushed him to a hospital where he was declared dead.