As many as 17 people, including 10 girls were feared dead in separate cases of drowning reported from Ferojabad, Jaunpur and Bijnore districts on Friday.In Ferojabad, some females hailing from Jaganath hamlet of Eka went to near-by canal to beat the soaring heat by taking a dip in the water on Friday morning.
However tragedy hit when two of them slipped and later while making efforts to rescue them, five more girls were drowned. The local police who rushed to spot claimed to have fished out two bodies identified as Vimlesh (25) and Ruby (12). Efforts were on fish out remaining five bodies belonging to lakshmi (12), Bhawana (13), Bhuri (30), Pinki (12) and one more unknown girl.
In a separate case reported from Jaunpur, a man and his brother-in-law drowned in Sai river in line Bazaar area of the district on Friday. Their bodies were fished out and send for autopsy test. In Bijnore, five people of a marriage party had gone for bathing in a pond at Raaja-ka-Tajpur village, when they met watery grave and died on Friday morning. Two bodies have been fished out, while a search was on the remaining. In a similar incident in Navgavan area, two girls drowned when they went to have a bath in a canal at Chandpur village. Their mother also met watery grave when she landed in their rescue.
Meanwhile two persons were also killed in firing to celebrate marriage occasion in Rampur and Ferojabad districts while four persons were killed in a road mishap at Ferojabad. In Rampur, one Uttal Dixit, spokesman of the
BJP MlA from Rudrapur, was firing to celebrate reception ceremony of one Manoj Aneja at York Hotel in Bilaspur area of Rampur on Thursday night. The unlawful act Uttal turned fatal when one of the bullets hit one guest identified
as Himanshu, a resident of Rudrapur. He was shifted to hospital but the doctors pronounced him dead upon arrival. A case was registered against the accused and efforts were made to arrest him.
In Barabanki, some guests were firing to celebrate engagement function of one Vinay Mishra, at Dhakauli area of Barabanki Kotwali when one of the bullets hit a local resident identified as Bachchan Singh aka Mahendra Pratap Singh,on Thursday night. He was taken to District Hospital but succumbed to his injuries.
In a road mishap, a Bolero and a Tempo collided head-on at Tundla-Etah road in Narkhi area of Ferojabad in which Bhura, and three other passengers of tempo died on the spot. The victims were shifted to hospital. Agitated with the accident, local residents later torched the Bolero but luckily the driver managed to slip safely. A case was registered in this regard and body was sent for post-mortem examination.