A woman was killed while eight members of her family, including her 6-month-old daughter, were critically injured when their two-storey house in village Nagla Nathua of Jasrana in Firozabad district suddenly collapsed in the wee hours of Wednesday.
The local police along with senior officers reached the spot and with the help of villagers they rescued the victims buried in the rubble and admitted them to the district hospital.
While the police claimed that the house was very old, local villagers said that the house collapsed due to water-logging in the area for the past several days and the administration’s apathy in pumping out the water.
According to reports, Sheeshram (65) was living with his and his 60-year-old brother Shyamveer’s families in an old house in Nagla Nathua locality of Jasrana. On Tuesday night, the family had dinner and went to sleep. Around 4 am on Wednesday, the local residents woke up after hearing a loud sound. When they came out of their houses, they saw that the house of Sheeshram had collapsed and the family members were buried under it. The locals immediately raised an alarm and also called the police following which the victims were rescued.
While 21-year-old Ruby died in the mishap, her husband Ajay (25), 6-month-old daughter Priya, along with Sheeshram, Shyamveer, Shyamveer’s daughters Keshwati (18), Sangeeta (28), Sangeeta’s son Prateek (3) and Ritik (2) were injured in the mishap.
In another mishap reported from Jaunpur, two persons, including a contractor, were killed while a junior engineer was seriously injured when their vehicle crashed into a road divider and overturned.
The accident took place on Wednesday morning near Chakmirzapur village in Jaunpur-Prayagraj highway under Baksha police station in Jaunpur district.
According to police, 52-year-old Prabhakar Yadav, a native of Kendrachal village in Baragaon, Varanasi, was working as an assistant engineer in the Public Works Department.
Prabhakar, along with Ankur Rai (24), a native of Saidpur Dharjan village in Ghazipur district, and 52-year-old Praveen Kumar Mahanthi, of Lanka Bhagwanpur in Varanasi, had gone by a Bolero to Lucknow for some work. When they were returning in the early hours of Wednesday and reached near Chakmirzapur village on Prayagraj-Jaunpur road in Baksha area, the driver lost control over the wheel and the vehicle crashed into a road divider and overturned. All the three occupants of the Bolero were seriously injured and taken to hospital where Ankur Rai and Praveen Kumar Mahanthi, were pronounced dead while the condition of Prabhakar was said to be critical.
A case was registered and the bodies were sent for autopsy.