Accident spree continuing unabated taking tolls in the State, at least six persons, including four pilgrims from Maharashtra heading for Kedarnath from Gangotri, died and six others were injured in three separate road accidents on Saturday.
In Tehri district, four persons died and six others were injured-all pilgrims on way to Kedarnath shrine- when the car they were sitting in fell into a gorge of 250 metres around 25 kilometres away from Ghanshali in Tehri district. With the assistance of the locals, revenue officials and the local police conducted rescue and relief operation and rushed the injured to a local hospital. Bodies of those killed were sent for post-mortem too. It is learnt that the condition of at least two of the six injured was critical and they were later referred to Doon Hospital. Police said that the deceased and the injured were from Amravati in Maharashtra. The car driver who was also injured in the accident informed the police that brake failure when the car was negotiating a sharp bend might have caused the vehicle plunge into the gorge. Informing this, SP Tehri NS Napalchyal said that the police are investigating the case.
In another accident that occurred at Sahaspur near Dehradun city on the intervening night of May 5 and May 6, one person died while another was injured when two bikes collided. The injured bike riders were admitted at a local hospital where Ankit Chaudhary, aged 24 years, native of Shamli (Uttar Pradesh), succumbed. The condition of the injured Nishant Mishra, native of Bihar, was stated to be serious as he was treated in the hospital. The body has been sent for post-mortem, said Sahaspur police.
Moreover, police retrieved one body found lying in a cavern at Mirchiya near village Dhoira at Kalsi in Dehradun district on Saturday. The body has been identified as that of a 30- year old Guddu, a Nepali national. Police said he might have been knocked down by a speeding vehicle. He was missing from his residence since May 3. The body was sent for autopsy with police probing the case.