Four persons died and 12 others including a child were seriously injured when a medium mode vehicle truck-407 they were travelling in fell off the road in Dhari tehsil’s Okhalkanda area on Tuesday morning.
All the injured persons were taken to a nearby Okhalkanda Hospital for treatment. Five of the injured persons have now been referred to a Haldwani hospital, said CS Imlal, SDM, Dhari, while talking to The Pioneer.
Health conditions of other injured persons including the child were under control, added the SDM. The injured child could be one-year-old or so.
The deceased persons have been identified as Durga Dutt (62), a resident of Dal Kanya village, Nain Ram (55), a resident of la Dhoba village , Trilochan (45), a resident of la Dhoba village and Daya Kishan (62), a resident of Dal Kanya village, informed the official concerned.
Though investigation into this road accident case is still on, it seems the victims were on their way from la Dhoba village to Patlot by this vehicle, the SDM said.
The ill-fated vehicle fell off about 20 metre below the road. But the reasons behind the mishap are yet to be ascertained, further maintained the SDM.
It is worth mention
here that this is third road mishap in Nainital district within a week or so. In first case of a road accident, a KMOU bus coming from Ranikhet side to Haldwani met with a road accident near Bhumiyadhar at Bhawali on May 19 and as many as 25 passengers were injured in this accident.
In the second case, a tourist bus which was on its way from Nainital to Kaladhungi side met with an accident at Ghatgarh, police station Kaladhungi, on May 26 evening and two persons died and 19 others were injured in this road mishap, as the officials concerned informed.