In a tragic mishap reported from Barabanki, a mother and her five children were drowned in Baghar 'lake' in Ramnagar area on Thursday morning. She was on way to her parents house when the incident took place.
Reports said that the family was crossing a lake at Ramnagar area to reach main road on a country-made boat when it capsized mid-stream, on Thursday morning. The mother Gyanwati(35), wife of Pannumallah and her five children,--Subh(10), Sonu(8), Priyanka (6), Anand(4) and Sipahilal (one) drowned in the mishap. The mother who knew swimming tried her best to save her children but in the last she too ended up drowning. The deceased were the natives of Kazia village in
Ramnagar and they were going to Bahriach. Senior police officials have rushed to spot and divers have fished out the bodies. Meanwhile five more persons died in a road mishap at Kasganj. Reports said that a speeding loader (UP93AP-4339) collided head with a DCM truck (HR47B-2445) at Mamu hamlet of Kasganj on Kanganj-Badaun highway on
Thursday morning. About a dozen persons sitting in both the vehicles were critically injured. They were taken to hospital where Vimal (35), Mangal (38) and Gopi (50), all resident of Daliya hamlet of Premnagar in Jhansi, who were sitting on loader, along with lallu (36), a resident of Rewari district of Haryana and Mahipal (45), hailing from
Badaun district, who were in DCM were pronounced dead upon arrival. The condition of two others identified as Ram Bharose and Anil has been stated to be `critical’ by the doctors. A case has been registered in this regard and bodies were sent for post-mortem examination.