A Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) jawan was killed while six of his colleagues were injured when a police vehicle carrying them to court collided head-on with a truck near Naveen Krishi Mandi on National Highway 2 in Chandauli.
As per reports, the PAC jawans were going from Naveen Krishi Mandi to the collectorate for duty when the tragedy took place on Wednesday morning.
The body of PAC jawan Man Ram (55) was sent for post-mortem and the injured jawans, identified as Sunil Kumar (45), Prakash Rai (50) Rishidev Gupta (47), Hemchandra Yadav (58), Puneet Kumar (24) and Sanjeev Kumar (42), were rushed to district hospital for treatment.
A case was registered against the truck driver but no one was arrested.
In another incident reported from Bhadohi, a 42-year-old pushcart vendor was killed after a speeding car knocked him down on Chauri Road under City Kotwali police station on Tuesday night.
Vendor Bechu Gupta was returning home with his pushcart when the speeding car, apparently being driven by a drunk youth, hit him near Badi Bagh area.
While Gupta died on the spot, the car driver also sustained serious injuries and was referred to the Trauma Centre in Varanasi.
Infuriated over the accident, the locals staged a protest and refused to allow the vendor’s body to be removed. They were pacified by senior officials and later the body was sent for autopsy.
In yet another accident in Fatehpur, two youths were killed after being hit by a truck on Banda-Tanda road on Wednesday afternoon.
As per reports, Jani (22) and Ravi Kumar (20) were changing a wheel of their truck near Dhakaili Katka turn in Mallawan police station area, when a truck coming from the opposite direction hit them.
The bodies were sent for autopsy and a hunt was on to nab the erring truck driver.