In a tragic road accident in Bardah police station area of Azamgarh district, five persons, including four of a family going to pay obeisance to Maa Vindhyachal Devi, died on way to the temple.
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath expressed deep grief over this accident.
Reports said that a car full of devotees overturned after hitting a road divider on the Azamgarh-Allahabad highway near Bhagwanpur under Bardah police station of the district.
The car also hit a motorcycle, due to which the rider died on the spot, while four people, including a girl, who were in the car were killed. A woman in a car is undergoing treatment in the district hospital.
Azamgarh’s Superintendent of Police Anurag Arya said that at around 9 pm on Saturday, a car carrying devotees to Vindhyachal Dham collided with the divider and overturned near Bhagwanpur culvert under Bardah police station.
Quoting eyewitnesses, the SP said that the car was running at high speed and after crashing into the road divider it jumped to the other side and hit a motorcycle coming from the other side, killing its rider Sushil Saroj (32) of Mirza Jagdishpur under Bardah police station. Three people in the car, including a girl, also died on the spot, while a woman died late at night in the district hospital during treatment.
The deceased were identified as Shiv Prakash (30), Pintu Yadav (22), Shivprakash's three-year-old daughter Anokhi and Meena Devi (25).
The Chief Minister's Office tweeted on Sunday that Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has expressed deep grief over the death of people in a road accident in Azamgarh district. Praying for peace to the soul of the departed, the chief minister expressed his condolences to the bereaved families.
In another major road accident in Bareilly, at least six people, including two children, were killed and 24 others were injured when a tractor-trolley in which they were travelling was hit by a tanker on Sunday, police said.
The accident occurred at the Kiccha-Khatima road near Sirsa police outpost in the Baheri area.
The tractor-trolley carrying 35 people, was going to Uttam Nagar gurudwara in Bareilly from Uttarakhand's Sitarganj when it was hit by a tanker from behind, Assistant Superintendent of Police (Rural) Rajkumar Agarwal said. Those killed in the accident were identified as Bhajan Singh (36), Suman Kaur (15), Gurnamo Kaur (30), Akashdeep (8), Raja (6) and Jassi (35).
The injured were rushed to the hospital. Three of them are stated to be in critical condition, he added.
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath expressed grief at the loss of lives in the accident.
Meanwhile in Mathura, an 18-year-old student from Delhi drowned while taking a holy dip in Mansi Ganga Kund in Govardhan on Sunday, police said.
Tarun, the deceased, was on a tour of Govardhan as part of a group of 48 students of a coaching centre in Delhi’s Mangolpuri. They arrived in the holy town on Saturday evening. After a visit to the Mukut Mukhabindu Temple on Sunday morning, they reached Mansi Ganga Kund, a sacred lake. While bathing, three of the students went deep into the water. Local residents managed to save two of them but Tarun drowned. Divers brought him out of water and he was taken to a community health centre where doctors pronounced him dead.