Tragedy hit Gazipur district when 8 persons including three women, were killed after a jeep in which they were traveling fell into Mangai river near Gazia village in Nonhara area late on Sunday night.
later on Monday evening, chief minister Akhilesh Yadav announced a compensation of Rs 5 lakh, each to those killed in the mishap. He also suspended executive engineer, assistant engineer and junior engineer, who were held guilty of not repairing the bridge which led to said mishap. He also directed to get a case registered against the engineers.
Yadav also announced a financial help of Rs 12 lakh to cancer patient Ruchi Agrihari. Meanwhile CM also released Rs 1699.72 crore for payment of compensation to farmers whose crops were damaged in incessant rains last year. About 84 lakh families spread in 52 districts of the State will be benefited by CM’s above move.
Reports from Gazipur confirmed that the jeep’s driver lost control over the wheel and the vehicle fell into the river killing Baijnath Bind (60), Mansha Devi (32), Tetra Devi (45), Sharda Devi (55), Sukhari Devi (18) on the spot. Jitenra Bind (15), Pinki (15) and Ramrajia Devi (55) died in the hospital during treatment. The accident occurred when the family members were taking a snake bite victim to a temple to get his treated through divine power. A case has been registered in this regard and all the bodies were shifted to hospital.
Meanwhile in another tragedy reported from Basti, 3 children drowned while
taking bath in a pond in Nandnagar village on Monday morning. Reports said that Mohd Shariq (12), Mohammad Adil (10) and Imtiyaz (14), who had gone to take bath in the pond when they accidentally went into the deeper side and were drowned. later the villagers fished out all the bodies after which the local police sent them for post-mortem examination.