A teenage couple ended their lives by jumping in front of a train, ostensibly due to stiff resistance to their affair from their respective families in Prem Nagar area of Jhansi on Wednesday.
As per reports, Sonu Pal of Ballampur village in Premnagar police station area, was having a love affair with his neighbour Karishma Pal for the last one year. Both wanted to tie the knot and grow old with each other. But when the families learnt about the affair, they vociferously opposed it.
Despite the couple being from the same caste, their family members were not ready to accept their affair.
On Wednesday morning, the couple reached the railway tracks and jumped in front of an oncoming train to end their lives. The police registered a case and sent both the bodies for post-mortem examination.
A total of nine persons, including four in Muzaffarnagar, died in separate road mishaps since Tuesday evening.
In Muzaffarnagar, four persons died while two others sustained grievous injuries after a speeding truck collided with their motorcycles on Panipat-Khatima highway near Jagahedi village on Wednesday.
The deceased were identified as Vipin Kumar (30), his wife Meenu (28), Sachin (22) and Nitin Kumar (23) of Titawi village. Six riders, travelling on three bikes, were on their way to Muzaffarnagar from Titawi village when the mishap took place.
The injured were shifted to district hospital in serious condition.
The police seized the truck abandoned by the driver, who fled from the spot after the accident. A case was registered against him and efforts were on to nab him.
In another road mishap in Lakhimpur Kheri, a tractor-trolley overturned in Sahuvapur village, leaving two people dead and 20 injured on Tuesday night.
Some villagers were returning to Udaipur village from Kheri branch canal route after attending a bhandara on Tuesday night when the tractor-trolley driver lost control over the vehicle and it overturned.
Those killed in the mishap were identified as Somvati (50) of Udaipur Lonpurwavillage and 11-year-old Anshima. The injured were taken to neighbouring Gola community health centre from where 10 people were sent to the district hospital.
Elsewhere in Bulandshahr, two bikes collided head-on leaving three dead on the spot in Uncha village under Narsaina police station.
As per reports, two bikes coming from opposite directions collided head-on at Narsaina-Unchagaon road. Hearing cries of the victims, locals converged on the spot and the police were informed. The injured were rushed to a community health centre, where doctors pronounced two of them -- Parvez and Rahul -- dead. One of the critically injured victims, Shaukat, was referred to the district hospital but he died on the way.