Over two dozen kanwariyas were injured after their loader hit the road divider and overturned on the Kanpur-Lucknow Highway near Bhallafarm in Sohramau area late Monday night.
With the help of locals, police admitted all the injured to the Nawabganj CHC. Reports said that after offering Gangajal at Lodheshwar Mahadev Temple in Barabanki, the kanwariyas were on their way back when their loader, which was passing through Bhallafarm in Sohramau area on the Lucknow-Kanpur highway, hit the road divider and overturned reportedly after the driver dozed off. Thirty devotees were injured in this accident. Police, with the help of locals, rushed the injured devotees to the Nawabganj CHC.
The police also helped in restoring the traffic movement. Those critically injured were identified as Sarita Devi, Ramchandra, Kamal Kishore, Aarti Devi, Rekha Devi, Satish, Poonam, Narendra Kumar Sunil, Sushma, Poonam, Arun Kumar, Pramod Kumar, Rakesh Kumar, and Kishan Kant, all of Kannauj. Others included Sumit Kumar, Naresh Kumar, Aditya Ramchandra, Ashish, and Kamal Kishore.
Meanwhile, a bus carrying devotees going from Auraiya to Banke Bihari temple in Mathura overturned on the highway near a petrol pump in Sadar Kotwali around 4 am on Tuesday. Sixteen devotees were seriously injured.
Those injured were shifted to the district hospital. During treatment, Chaiya (60) , wife of Kripal, a resident of Misa village of Pariav police station in Fatehpur district, died while more than 6 people were referred to Kanpur.
In another accident in Jhansi on Monday night, two cousins died after their bike collided with that of their friends. Reports said Vijay and Sanjay, both residents of Tilaitha locality of Jhansi, went to Baruasagar dam along with their friends Pankaj, Deepu and Suraj. While returning, their bikes collided with each other.
Vijay and Sanjay were pronounced dead at a hospital. There was a gap of two days between their birth and they recently got married at the same venue on the same day.