LUCKNOW: At the least 5 individuals had been killed and three others injured when a mid-size SUV carrying members of a barat procession was hit by a tractor-trolley and fell off the street into a canal in Hardoi late on Friday.
Taking a severe be aware of the incident, chief minister Yogi Adityanath directed the officers to succeed in the positioning and personally supervise the aid and rescue operations.
Police stated that Devesh Kumar, 20, was getting married in Shahjahanpur district. The barat procession was going to Abhayan village of Kant police station space of Shahjahanpur.
“Round 12.30 am, the SUV carrying Devesh, his father and 6 others hit a sugarcane-laden tractor-trolley close to Daryabad village in Pachdevra police station space. Attributable to this, the SUV went uncontrolled and fell into the Barwan canal,” stated Rajesh Dwivedi, superintendent of police, Hardoi.
The accident precipitated a loud noise and different automobiles accompanying the barat got here to a grinding halt. They carried out the rescue work. Within the meantime, passers-by stopped and knowledgeable the police and administration.
A staff of firemen, PAC and different models had been pressed to hold out the rescue, stated the SP.
“All eight individuals had been pulled out from the mangled items of the SUV and brought to the district hospital. The docs there declared the groom, Devesh (20), his father Omvir (45), uncle Sumit (30), and two distant family, Vipin (22) and Atul (13), as introduced dead, whereas three others, including the driving force, had been referred to district hospital in Farrukhabad.
Taking a severe be aware of the incident, chief minister Yogi Adityanath directed the officers to succeed in the positioning and personally supervise the aid and rescue operations.
Police stated that Devesh Kumar, 20, was getting married in Shahjahanpur district. The barat procession was going to Abhayan village of Kant police station space of Shahjahanpur.
“Round 12.30 am, the SUV carrying Devesh, his father and 6 others hit a sugarcane-laden tractor-trolley close to Daryabad village in Pachdevra police station space. Attributable to this, the SUV went uncontrolled and fell into the Barwan canal,” stated Rajesh Dwivedi, superintendent of police, Hardoi.
The accident precipitated a loud noise and different automobiles accompanying the barat got here to a grinding halt. They carried out the rescue work. Within the meantime, passers-by stopped and knowledgeable the police and administration.
A staff of firemen, PAC and different models had been pressed to hold out the rescue, stated the SP.
“All eight individuals had been pulled out from the mangled items of the SUV and brought to the district hospital. The docs there declared the groom, Devesh (20), his father Omvir (45), uncle Sumit (30), and two distant family, Vipin (22) and Atul (13), as introduced dead, whereas three others, including the driving force, had been referred to district hospital in Farrukhabad.