Over a dozen people were killed while several others were injured in separate mishaps in the last 20 hours.
In Firozabad, 18 people were injured after a double-decker bus fell off the road on Agra-Lucknow Expressway near Firozabad in the early hours of Friday. There were 36 passengers in the bus.
The injured were admitted to Saifai Medical College.
Firozabad’s Special Superintendent of Police, Ashish Kumar Tiwari, also visited the spot. The bus, belonging to Shyam Lal Gola's travels, had left for Gorakhpur at 8:00 pm from Delhi's Kashmere Gate. At around 1 am, the bus driver suddenly dozed off near Sirsaganj, after which the bus broke the railing and fell into a gorge. None of the injured passengers are reportedly in serious condition.
In a similar mishap, 30 people were seriously injured when a Roadways bus collided with a DCM truck on Friday morning on Lucknow-Bahraich highway. An hour after the accident, another mishap took place when a motorcycle rider rammed his two-wheeler into the bus from behind. The motorcycle rider died on the spot.
According to reports, the bus was on its way to Bahraich when the accident took place under the Ramnagar police circle near Chandanpur village.
The DCM driver was also seriously injured.
The injured passengers were admitted to a hospital.
Station House Officer of Ramnagar, Santosh Singh, said that there were 27 passengers in the bus. He said that seven persons, including two women, were critically injured and had been admitted to the district hospital.
In a shocking incident in Bulandshahr on the auspicious occasion of Rakshabandhan, a Roadways bus hit a motorcycle, killing all the 3 persons riding the two-wheeler.
On getting information about the incident, the police reached the spot and sent the bodies for autopsy. The incident took place on Aligarh-Ghaziabad highway in Arnia police station area of Bulandshahr
. Police identified the deceased as Dharmendra (30), Kalicharan (32) of Takkar village under Pahasu police station and Sahab Singh (28) of Chauganpur village under Chhatari police station. The victims were working in the NTPC plant located in Dussehra village.
In Bahraich, two motorcycles collided on Thursday night near a brick kiln in Matera police station area in which a teenager died while two women died in a separate accident on Gonda-Lucknow highway.
Mohammad Taslim (17), a resident of Shankarpur village under Matera police station, was going on a motorcycle with his brother Ahmed Raza (18) when his two-wheeler collided with another motorcycle of Mohammad Faisal (15), a resident of Salarpur Jokaha. Taslim died in the accident.
In the Bisheshwarganj police station area, a 70-year-old unidentified woman who appeared to be mentally deranged, was hit by a vehicle coming from behind. The woman died on the spot. At the same time, a youth resident of Sahjana of Rupaidiha police station area going from Rupediha towards Nanpara by a motorcycle was hit by a bus near Sumerpur. He died on the spot.
In Jaunpur, three people, including a woman, met with an accident while going to tie rakhi on Thursday.
According to the police, 35-year-old Nagina Devi of Kodri village under Jalalpur police station in the district was going on a motorcycle with her husband Krishnalal to tie rakhi to her brothers in Dawoodpur (Danganj) Varanasi. They met with an accident near Khargsenpur market of Kerakat on the Gaddi-Jalalpur road. While Nagina Devi died on the spot, her husband was critically injured. Similarly Jahnavi, an 11-year-old daughter of Rakesh Bind of Sarokhanpur village of Mungra Badshahpur, was going to Nanihal Marufpur, Machhlishahr on Friday morning when she died in an accident. Srichand Patel, 42, of Deepakpur village was walking on foot when a motorcycle hit him, killing him on the spot on Thursday night.
In Gorakhpur, three friends were crossing a railway track in an inebriated state when the Intercity Express going from Lucknow to Gorakhpur hit them. While two friends were killed another was battling for his life. The deceased were identified as Golu alias Peer Mohammad (23) and Ajay Chauhan (32), residents of Digvijay Nagar under Gorakhnath police station area.
In Hardoi, two persons were killed when two motorcycles collided near village Bhadasi on Basit Nagar road of Shahabad. The victims were identified as Ashish and Avadhesh Singh.