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Four members of a family were killed and several others were injured when a tourist bus collided head-on with an SUV in Baddupur police station area of Barabanki on Wednesday morning.
Barabanki’s Superintendent of Police RS Gautam said the victims were native of Reosa village in Sitapur district and were travelling on the SUV.
Eight people were critically injured in the accident and they were admitted to the KGMU Trauma Centre in Lucknow.
The SUV was returning from Lucknow along with a new-born baby and the woman who delivered the child.
The eight-day-old child was also injured in the mishap along with several passengers of the bus.
In a separate incident reported from Aligarh, a home guard was killed by unidentified assailants in Pali Mukimpur area, police said on Wednesday.
According to reports, the home guard, identified as Ashok Dixit (45) of Pali Mukimpur town, was on duty till 10 pm on Tuesday. While on his way back home, unidentified assailants attacked Dixit with sharp-edge weapon. His body was recovered from Bulapur road on Wednesday morning.
Sources said that the motive behind the murder was yet to be ascertained. The police registered a case and sent the body for post-mortem.
Further investigations are on.
In another incident reported from Ghaziabad, a police constable allegedly committed suicide over some domestic issue in Modinagar area.
According to reports, constable Nitin Kumar Sharma (35) of Phaphran locality of Modinagar area, has joined police force in 2011. Sharma was currently posted as a PRB at Titawi police station in Muzaffarnagar and had been absent from duty since November 15.
He is said to have committed suicide by hanging himself on Tuesday night.
Preliminary investigations revealed that the deceased constable was not on good terms with his wife and hence, he may have taken the extreme step.
A report was lodged by the family members and the body was sent for autopsy.