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In a head-on collision between two trucks in Barabanki, drivers of both the vehicles were burnt alive while in another incident in Basti, two youths were feared drowned while taking selfie in the river.
According to a report received from Barabanki, two speeding trucks collided near Barelanager on Bhitariya-Haidergarh Road following which both the vehicles caught fire.
The accident took place late on Monday night and the drivers of both the vehicles were trapped inside and burnt alive while the cleaner was somehow rescued by local residents in a critical condition. He was taken to district hospital from where the doctors referred him to the Trauma Centre of King George's Medical University in Lucknow.
Sources said that one of the drivers identified as Vishram Yadav aka Kallu (25), hailing from Siwan Patranga in Ayodhya, was going to drop cement shades from a factory in Mohanlalganj to Siliguri in West Bengal while the other Shubham (20), a resident of Shivgarh in Rae Bareli, was coming with an empty truck.
A case was registered in this regard by the police and the body was sent for post-mortem.
In another incident reported from Basti district, five youths went for a picnic at Saryu river in Majhakhurd locality in Kalawari area on Tuesday morning.
While taking selfie, they slipped and all drowned. In the meantime, some other visitors raised an alarm and the local divers jumped into the river and rescued three of the youths.
Later, the cops from Kalawari police station and also from neighboring Aliganj police station in Ambedkarnagar district launched a search operation.
The local police said that they failed to locate two victims and they were feared dead. However, the search operation was continuing.
The rescued youths disclosed that all were students of a private engineering college in Ambedkarnagar and were regularly visiting the place for the last few days to enjoy a bath in the river. They disclosed the names of missing students as Devesh and Tarunesh, hailing from Lucknow and Hapur, respectively.
Meanwhile, five persons, including two children, were killed in separate mishaps.
In Fatehpur, the driver of a speeding car lost control over the vehicle and rammed it into a roadside tree. Three occupants of the car died on the spot while the fourth was injured and referred to Lucknow in a critical condition.
The mishap took place at Kumbhapur locality in Khaga area of Fatehpur on Monday night.
The victims were identified as Kaleemullah (30), Amit (25), Hemant (25), all local residents. The injured was identified as Golu Thakur.
In Deoria, the boundary wall of Swami Devanand PG College in Lar locality of the district, suddenly fell on Monday afternoon and five children playing nearby were trapped in the rubble. The local residents rescued them but by then two of the children were already. The other three were admitted to a hospital.
Those killed were identified as Khushbu and her neighbour Satish while the injured were identified as Ameesha, Khushi and Roshan.