Tragedy hit Saharanpur when a van carrying school children caught fire leading to death of three students while over half a dozen others are critically injured on Monday morning. local police who rushed to the spot claimed to have shifted the injured to District Hospital from here arrangements have been made to shift them to some other specialised centre.
Reports said that a van carrying children of Bhagwati Vidya Public school in Saharanpur, suddenly caught fire between Jaitpur and Kutubpur localities under Nagla police station on Monday morning. A dozen children were inside the van besides the driver who were stuck inside the vehicle while the driver somehow managed to came out. later some passers-by rushed to the rescue of children and they somehow opened the gate and took all the students out and shifted them to near-by hospital but three of the children, identified as Ankush, Vanshikha and Deepanshi, were pronounced dead upon arrival. Nine others were going under treatment out of which condition of about half a dozen of them has been stated to serious. A case has been also registered in this regard. local police claimed that the leakage in gas kit and short –circuit probably led to fire incident.
Meanwhile five persons, including three ‘kanwarias’, were killed and over two dozen injured when a milk tanker rammed into a tractor-trolley in Nakaha area of lakhimpur Kheri on Monday morning. The accident took place near a petrol pump on Pilibhit-Basti Highway when scores of ‘kanwarias’ (devotees of lord Shiva) were on their way back to Chaklakhipur in a tractor-trolley after offering ‘Jalabhishek’ at Shiv Temple in Gola, Deputy Superintendent of Police Avnishwar Chandra Srivastava told media persons. A speeding tanker coming from the opposite direction rammed into the tractor-trolley killing the driver (Pradeep Sharma) and cleaner (Yogesh Sharma) of the tanker and a kanwaria (Puttal) on the spot while two other kanwarias (Dileram and Mohan lal) succumbed to injuries on way to hospital. “Over two dozen kanwarias were injured in the accident. Ten critically injured have been rushed to lucknow while nearly 20 others are under treatment at the district hospital,” he said. local people and police officials from Nakaha, Bhadfar and lakhimpur police stations rushed to the spot and carried the injured to the district hospital.