In a shocking incident, three children were killed after the ceiling of a room caved in on them in Baghpat district on Monday.
As per reports, three sisters aged 15 years, 12 years and a two-month were sitting in a room of their house near a brick kiln on Monday, when the roof of the room caved in and they were trapped under the rubble.
Hearing the loud thud and their frantic screams, the local residents rushed there and somehow extricated them from the rubble before rushing them to a nearby hospital. However, all three died while undergoing treatment.
The deceased are survived by their mother, who is not financially well off and the district administration is figuring to give her some compensation.
The bodies were sent for autopsy and an investigation has been initiated into the mishap.
In a separate mishap in Fatehpur, two people died when a motorcycle they were riding was hit by a truck on Tuesday.
Sunil Kumar (27) of Rae Bareli district was taking his neighbour Sadhna Devi (35) to a hospital in Fatehpur for treatment on his two-wheeler when the accident took place near Beragadiwa village.
Both of them died on the spot while the truck driver fled after the accident. The bodies were sent for autopsy and an investigation has been initiated,
Meanwhile in Muzaffarnagar, five members of a family, including two women, sustained injuries after they were attacked by an armed gang at their residence on Monday night after which eight people were booked in this connection.
It surfaced that prim accused Johnny harassed a young woman in Kitas village in Ratanpuri police station limits on Monday. After the woman narrated her ordeal to her family, they confronted Johnny.
Angered by this, Johnny along with his friends Deepak, Praveen, Arvind, Jaykumar, Mohit, Parjit and Vikas stormed the victim’s house and attacked her family members with sticks and other weapons. The injured family members were rescued by their neighbours and shifted to hospital. After the neighbours informed the police, a case was registered but all the assailants are absconding.