In a tragic incident in Bareilly, five persons including two students were killed and 20 others got injured when a school bus collided with another bus in Shahi area on early Monday morning.
Two drivers identified as Kishan lal (40), Mobin (35), an eleventh class student Sunita and a passenger Mor Singh (32) died on the spot when bus of B l International School collided with the private bus near Dunka hamlet of Shahi in Bareilly on early Monday morning. The injured were taken to different hospitals where a class five student Mohd Faiz died during treatment. The condition of two more students has been reported as critical. A case has been registered and bodies were sent for post-mortem.
Meanwhile tragedy also hit Kanpur where a 40-year-old woman slipped while de-boarding from a train at the Kanpur central railway station and got stuck in between the platform and train. Reports said that the local public and passengers alert the railway authorities but they took over a hour to take out the victim from the track and shifted her to hospital. She was pronounced dead upon arrival. The victim identified as Poonam was trying to de-board the train before it had come to a complete halt. During this, she lost her balance and fell in the narrow gap between the train and the platform. The area of the platform where the woman was stuck had to be broken and the steps attached to the rail boggie were also unscrewed to let the women out. The victim's mother and brother were also present on the spot when the incident took place. No bruises were seen on her body but she had fainted due to shock, the GRP officials who registered a case claimed.
In another mishap reported from Mathura, three men on a motorcycle died when an unidentified truck allegedly hit them on the National highway. Reports said that Mukesh (25), Govinda (26) and Amar Singh (35), all residents of Chaumuha town, were returning from Mathura when the truck hit their motorcycle on Sunday night. All the three died on the spot. The errant driver fled with his truck which agitated the local public and kin of the victims. However the relatives of the deceased have alleged that police personnel deployed for checking vehicles threw a stick at the bike, due to which the youths lost their balance and died on the spot. Demanding action in this regard, the villagers kept the body on the road and blocked traffic movement for several hours on Monday morning. The protest was called off only when senior officers reached the spot and assured to look into the matter and if they found the cops guilty than they will be punished.