A couple and their two children were electrocuted to death while three others suffered serious burns when a high tension wire snapped and fell on a field in Gonda on Tuesday morning.
As per reports, Dayaram (55) of Chiraiya hamlet of Mankapur police station was working in his fields along with his wife Saroj (50) and three children early Tuesday morning. Suddenly a 11000 KV high tension wire passing over the fields snapped and fell over Dayaram. As he shouted for help, his wife, children and two locals rushed towards him. In the process, Dayaram, Saroj, daughter Seema (15), son Ravi (10) died on the spot while the third daughter Chandni (9) and the two locals were critically injured. The injured were admitted to a hospital. The district administration has extended an ex-gratia of Rs one lakh each to the kin of deceased and Rs 50,000 each for the injured.
With Deepawali approaching, reports of explosion in fire cracker units have started pouring in. On Tuesday, three explosions took place in Rae Bareli, Gonda and Etah respectively killing four persons and critically injuring over a dozen others.
In Rae Bareli, Zaibunissa (50) and helper Bhupendra (14) were killed while two others were injured in an explosion at a fire cracker unit of Idris in Uchahar area on Tuesday morning. The woman killed was Idris’ wife, while his daughter Shabnam (25) and son Shanu (18) were also injured and hospitalised in a serious condition. A case was registered and investigation was on.
In Gonda, a woman was killed and seven others injured when fire crackers stacked in a house at Khargupur village caught fire. Shahrunissa (22) was killed and seven others were injured in theincident. The injured were hospitalised where the condition of two deteriorated and they were referred to lucknow for treatment. Investigations were on in this connection.
Finally in Etah, an explosion ripped apart at an illegal cracker unit being run in the house of Ram Sewak in Nagla Khurd of Aliganj area on Monday night. Ram Sewak’s son Sonu (20) was killed in the blast while two other sons — Gulab, Rohit aka Radhyshyam, along with Rewati, Dhanweer, Arun, Kuldeep were critically injured and had to be hospitalised. A case was registered in this regard and the matter was being investigated.