Three people died on the spot when a sand-laden truck collided head on with a trailer in Kaushambi on Thursday.
The accident occured at Nanmai modh of Saini Police station at GT Road in Kaushambi
Station Officer Saini Subash Chaurasia said, “The sand-laden truck, having registration plate of Pratapgrah, was coming from the wrong side and hit the trailer coming from Rajasthan and heading towards Prayagraj. The driver and cleaner of the trailer and the driver of the truck, died in the accident."
The police pulled out the bodies of the deceased after a lot of efforts and the identities of the deceased are yet to be verified.
Bodies of woman, 3 kids fished out from well : The bodies of a 35-year-old woman and her three young children were fished out from a well in Naharpur village of the Kohdaur area in Pratapgarh on Thursday, police said.
Prima facie it appeared that the four committed suicide, they said.
According to police, the woman, Pramila, jumped into the well with her sons, Divyansh (5) and Shivansh (3) and her daughter Saloni (10).
Her family members told the police that Pramila’s husband Sohanlal used to work in Mumbai as a labourer and she was insisting him to take her there with him.
When Sohanlal refused to take her to Mumbai, she left for her parents’ place on Tuesday.
She was found dead with her three children on Thursday. A probe is on in the matter, police said.