On way to Jaunpur from Thane in auto, woman-daughter duo killed in accident

KANPUR/JANUPUR: A 32-year-old woman and her six-year-old daughter from Thane who were heading towards their Jaunpur home in their auto-rickshaw, were killed when their vehicles was hit by a container truck in Fatehpur on Tuesday. The woman's husband, who was driving the auto-rickshaw, son and brother-in-law, were critically injured and admitted to district hospital.
News of the woman and her daughter's death led to commotion at their Mokalpur village under Saraikhwaja police station area of Jaunpur district as hundreds gathered at their place.
According to police, Rajan Yadav 38, his wife Sanju Yadav, their son Nitin Yadav (8) and daughter Nandini, besides his brother Guddu Yadav, left Thane on Saturday evening to reach their native village in Jaunpur district, 1500 km away in the auto-rickshaw which Rajan used to drive in Thane.
They were part of a group that had left Thane on autos and motorcycles for their respective villages in UP and Bihar after they exhausted their savings during one and a hald months of lockdown.
After almost 60-hour journey when they reached a toll plaza near Mahicha temple on Kanpur-Fatehpur-Allahabad highway, a container truck hit their auto-rickshaw following which it skidded off the road and fell into a road-side ditch.
The woman and her daughter died on the spot, the official said. Her husband, minor son and her brother-in-law, who were trapped under the auto, were rescued and rushed to hospital by the passers-by and local police. "The accident report has been registered and further investigation was under way. Bodies were sent for post mortem," said circle officer, Khaga, Anshuman Mishra.
Their relative Bhole Shankar, along with his minor son Manish, was also accompanying them on his two-wheeler from Mumbai. He told TOI that as their money got exhausted and also due to fear of corona spread, besides extension of lockdown, they had decided to return to their native place in Jaunpur. "While leaving Mumbai, we were not alone but there were around 100 to 150 auto wallahs, who had left with their families in autos for their native homes," he said.
Those accompanying Rajan informed his father NP Yadav in his village. His family members in Jaunpur told TOI that they had left Mumbai for Jaunpur on May 9.