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Four policemen were injured when some youths violating lockdown norms attacked them in Deoband area of Saharanpur.
The cops had gone there to enforce lockdown.
Later, Saharanpur’s Senior Superintendent of Police Dinesh Kumar P rushed to the spot with a heavy police force and dispersed a mob that was alleging police excesses.
Superintendent of Police (Dehat) in Saharanpur, Vidyasagar Mishra, said that two policemen went to Pathanpur Dogada in Deoband late Thursday night after learning that youths there were violating lockdown norms. He said that on being counselled, the youths roughed up the cops after which one of them was taken into custody.
Acting on an alert sent by the two cops, a Police Response Van (PRV) of Dial-112 was despatched to the area to assist the policemen. This led to the police party being attacked in which constables Deepak, Kuldeep, Kamal and home guard Vikas Chandra were injured.
The situation could be controlled after a heavy police rushed to the spot.
After the incident, Railway Road police outpost in-charge lodged a report against a local corporator’s son and 50 other unidentified miscreants.
Meanwhile in Kaushambi, 18 workers returning home from Ajhuwa quarantine centre on a pickup were injured when their vehicle overturned at Selraha in Majhanpur on Friday morning.
Later, six critically injured persons were referred to medical college in Prayagraj.
In Jhansi, 20 labourers were injured when a truck coming from Maharashtra with 24 labourers collided with a dumper on Friday morning.
The injured were shifted to a local hospital.
In Sitapur, at least five labourers were detained and sent to quarantine centre after they jumped off a train on Friday.
The police said that the labourers jumped off Shramik Special train, ferrying workers from Amritsar to Gonda.
The train was approaching Sitapur station at a slow speed around 5 am when five labourers from Shahjahanpur, jumped off. All of them were detained and later sent to a quarantine centre.
Meanwhile in Hapur, three persons were killed in a truck-car collision on National Highway 9 in Kucheysar Chaupley in Babugarh area early Friday morning.
An occupant of the car, Sunder, was carrying the ashes of his father to immerse it in the Ganga at Gharmukteshwar and was travelling with his kin Sanjay and driver Suresh when the incident happened. While all three car occupants died, truck driver Rohit and cleaner Harish were critically injured.
In another mishap in Amroha, fair price shop owner Gajendra Singh of Ibrahimpur was going on his motorcycle to deposit cash in a bank branch at Dhanaura market and as he was crossing Gajraula-Chandpur bypass, a truck loaded with cane crushed him to death.
Elsewhere in Mainpuri, one person was killed and 11 others were injured when two cars collided on Agra-Lucknow Expressway in Karhal area. A Maruti van going from Kannauj to Ahmedabad and a Marazzo coming from the opposite direction collided head-on killing van driver Hari Shankar of Kalyanpur (Etawah).
The injured were admitted in PGI Saifai.