Two people, including a devotee, were killed and half a dozen devotees were injured in separate road accidents in Ayodhya.
Reports said that a tractor-trolley filled with devotees from Barabanki was hit by a truck near Abbu Sarai, adjacent to the city on the Ayodhya-Lucknow highway late Tuesday night.
A devotee riding a tractor-trolley died in the accident. All the devotees were said to be residents of Purva of Fatehpur Banar in Barabanki. A devotee Ramtej said that they all were returning after worshiping in Ayodhya and on the way, the truck hit the trolley from the back. There were 27 people in the trolley.
Jagannath, Kapil, Suraj, Awadhesh Kumar, Pramod Kumar, Baijnath Verma and Dheeraj Kumar suffered serious injuries. The injured were rushed to the district hospital by the police. Seeing Jagannath's serious condition, he was referred to the KGMU Trauma Centre in Lucknow, but he died on the way.
District Magistrate Nitish Kumar and Senior Superintendent of Police Prashant Verma visited the district hospital to enquire about the condition of the injured.
In another mishap, 45-year-old Parmanand Shukla of Shuklahiya Patupur, died after being hit by an unknown vehicle on the Ayodhya Prayagraj highway near Pipri Jalalpur trisection in Bikapur. This incident also took place on Tuesday night.
Meanwhile in Bahraich, a shocking incident came to light in which a man going with his son to settle the marriage of his daughter died in a road mishap on Wednesday morning.
Reports said that Nakchand Singh, a resident of village Lalit Nagar under Visheshwarganj police station of the district, was going with his son Ajay Singh (35) to settle the marriage of his daughter when a speeding truck hit his motorcycle, killing both on the spot. The truck driver abandoned the vehicle and escaped. A case was registered and the body was sent for post-mortem.
In another incident in Hardoi, a man and his son were also killed while his brother was critically injured in a road accident.
Reports said that Raj Kishore, a resident of Chandrasipur Sahijna village of Lonar in Hardoi is engaged in farming. His sister Soni was married to Neeraj of Khumariapur hamlet of Behatagokul a few months back. As a part of ritual, Raj Kishore along with his brother Sarvesh and son Suman went to Soni’s in-laws house on Tuesday evening to give sweets and other gifts on the occasion of `teej’. When they were returning, a speeding vehicle hit their bike at Jagdishpur village and all the three were critically injured. They were shifted to hospital by the local police where both Raj Kishore and his son Suman succumbed to their injuries while Sarvesh is still battling for his life.
In another road mishap on Agra-Lucknow Expressway in Talagram locality of Kannauj, two persons were killed while two others were injured. Their car went out of control and overturned in another lane after hitting the road divider.
Usha Agarwal (65) wife of Subhash Agarwal, a resident Vijay Laxminagar in Sitapur and Vivek (35) died in the incident. Poonam Aggarwal (45) wife of Jitendra Aggarwal and car driver Deepak Pal (35) were seriously injured in the incident. They were sent to the medical college Tirva.
According to reports, the victims were going to Khatu Shyam Temple in Rajasthan for darshan when they met with the accident.