Half a dozen labourers hailing from Bamhorisar area of Talbehat in Lalitpur were killed while over a dozen of their colleagues were injured when a speeding truck hit a tractor-trolley on which the labourers were going.
According to reports, the labourers were going from Bamhorisar to Talbehat by tractor-trolley. The accident took place as soon as the tractor-trolley left Bamhaurisar in Talbehat Kotwali area and reached the highway when a speeding truck coming from Talbehat side collided with it. Due to the collision, the trolley separated from the tractor and overturned in the ditch. More than 20 labourers, including four women, were in the trolley. While half a dozen died on the spot, many others were seriously injured and sent to hospital.
The death toll could rise as the condition of half a dozen labourers is stated to be very critical by doctors attending on them.
Four of the deceased were identified as Panna Lal, Kiran, Nirpat and Aarti.
Vehicular traffic came to a halt on both sides of the road after this accident near Bamhorisar on Jhansi-Lalitpur National Highway in Lalitpur. As soon as the news of the accident came, the administrative and police officials rushed to the spot and shifted the injured at the Lalitpur district hospital from where those critically injured were referred to the medical college hospital in Jhansi.
In another mishap in Aligarh, three women, including a mother and her daughter, died after being crushed by a speeding vehicle.
AS per reports, Dolly Sharma, 40, resident of Sonia Vihar, Delhi, and 50-year-old Ramshree Devi, resident of Monona police station area in Amla in district Bareilly, have relatives in Saraiwali locality of Atrauli. Both the women had come to Saraivali on Saturday with their family members Manoj Sharma and another elder. On Saturday evening, all the four people were going from Painth crossroads towards Avantibai crossroads to board the Roadways bus to go to Delhi while 35-year-old Sunita, a resident of village Madhauli, was going to her village from Atrauli. A speeding bus crushed them in killing Dolly, Ramshree and Sunita on the spot.
Inspector Devendra Singh said that the bodies of the three women were sent for post-mortem.
Meanwhile, the Basti police registered a case regarding the death of Motilal Singh, the special officer on duty (OSD) of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. He died in a road accident a month back and his wife is still admitted in Sanjay Gandhi Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences in a serious condition.
A case has been registered against the Scorpio driver Santosh Gupta on the complaint of Motilal Singh's daughter. The family of Motilal Singh, a resident of Budhanpur police station area of Atraulia in Azamgarh lives in Indiranagar in Lucknow.
It may be mentioned that on the night of August 25 last, Motilal Singh was going from Gorakhpur to Lucknow with his wife, when an uncontrolled Scorpio rammed into a tree on the roadside in Khajuwala under Munderwa police station. Motilal Singh was killed in the accident. His wife Bina Singh was seriously injured while the driver received minor injuries.
About a month later, Motilal Singh's daughter Ankita Singh filed a complaint at Munderwa police station, alleging that the Scorpio's driver Santosh Gupta while driving recklessly hit a tree at the roadside due to which her father died in the accident.