Tragedy hit Etah when a speeding roadways bus fell into a canal killing 21 passengers and leaving 22 others injured late on Sunday night. local administration which swung into action immediately after they get the information claimed to have so far identified 17 of the victims. Cops also suspected that some persons might be also traveling on the bus so efforts were on to fish out more bodies till the time of filing this report.
A compensation of Rs 50000 has been also announced for the family members of those killed by the local administration.
According to reports, a Roadways Bus (UP81AA-9744), belonging to Aligarh Depot was going from Farukabad to New Delhi via Etah on late Sunday night. When the vehicle was passing through Piluwa locality of Etah, the driver who was said to be drunk lost control over the vehicle and went crushing the bridge and fell into Sunna Canal. At the time of accident, 43 passengers were said to be in the bus.
Soon after getting the information, local administration rushed along with their teams and rescued 22 victims besides fishing out bodies of 21 others some of whom also breathed their last at District Hospital.
Condition of dozen of the injured has been also termed as `critical’ by the doctors. Reports said that 17 out of the total 21 deceased were identified as Noorjahen (65), Robina (13), Akhilesh Singh (32), Pawan (6), Takseem Begum (32), Rehan (12), Kanishk (3), Amir (30), Afsana (28), Sahid (5), Rahul (15), Zaveed (23), Arif (24), Aqeel (25), Satyendra (30), Seema (35), and Om (6). A case has been also registered in this regard and bodies were sent for post-mortem examination.
Meanwhile 11 more persons died in two separate incidents reported from Sultanpur and Jaunpur district respectively. In Sultanpur, a speeding truck (UP63E-9537) rammed with a PICUP (UP72T-3402) at Vedupura hamlet of lambhuwa killing half a dozen occupants and critically injuring 8 others. One of the victims has been identified as Kalawati (50), a resident of Ramganj in Devsara hamlet of Pratapgarh. Efforts were on to maintain identity of the other victims. In another mishap at Jaunpur, a speeding truck collided head-on with Bolero jeep at Shambhuganj hamlet of Baksha on Monday morning. Five of the Bolero occupants identified as Faiz Ali (12), Salman (18), Zaid (8), Shahabudeen (25), all natives of Indauli in Sultanpur along with unknown 10-year-old child were killed
in the mishap while over half a dozen others were seriously injured. They were shifted to District Hospital from where the doctors referred four of them to Medical College at Varanasi. A case was registered in this regard by the police.