An eight-year-old boy was killed when the bus he was travelling in overturned in Bijnor in the early hours of Friday, police said.
The accident took place in the Sherkot police station area.
Station House Officer Satyendra Kumar said, “A transport bus travelling from Dehradun to Lakhimpur Kheri overturned after one of its tyres burst. Around 75 people were on the bus at the time of the incident. A child, Tasleem, was killed in the accident.”
Teams of local police along with senior officials reached the spot and sent the body for post-mortem. The officials arranged another bus on which the passengers were sent to their destination.
In another tragic incident, a 55-year-old woman and her daughter-in-law, both riding pillion on a motorcycle, died after a truck hit the two-wheeler in Ballia district, police said on Friday.
Bhagwati Devi and her daughter-in-law Neelam Chauhan (24) were returning to their home from market when they met with the accident on Thursday evening near Karauli village on Sahatwar-Chandpur road, Circle Officer Rajesh Kumar Tiwari said.
The motorcycle rider, a youth, was thrown off his vehicle due to the impact of the collision. He, however, escaped with minor injuries.
Police sent both the bodies for autopsy.
The truck driver fled the spot after the accident, leaving his vehicle behind.
In Sultanpur, an earthen mound collapsed in which four children were buried under the mud on Friday morning.
While one child died, three others were rescued after removing the mud and shifted to hospital.
The mud mound collapsed while children were playing outside their home. The incident took place in Sarwan village of the district.
In the last mishap, an unknown vehicle crushed two women who went for a morning walk near Vishwakarma temple in Kotwali area of Kushinagar district on Friday. Both died on the spot.
Reports said that Anjana Singh (30) and Sunita (35), residents of Maruadih in Hata used to go for a walk every morning. On Friday morning, at around four o'clock, both of them went for a walk from home towards the highway, but when they did not return home for a long time, the family members got worried and went to search for them. During the search, someone informed them that two women were mowed down by a vehicle near Vishwakarma temple. When the family members reached the spot, they found both the women lying dead on the road.
A case was registered and bodies were sent for autopsy.