Three migrants die in accident on Kanpur-Jhansi highway

KANPUR: A 50-year-old woman and her two-year-old granddaughter, besides a 25-year-old man who were heading towards their native homes in Balrampur and Basti districts due to the coronavirus lockdown, were killed while 50 others injured after the DCM in which they were travelling in, crashed into a stationary truck on the Kanpur-Jhansi highway in Kanpur Dehat in the morning hours of Wednesday.The police rushed to the spot and admitted the injured to the district hospital.
The mishap took place near the Mati bridge under Akbarpur Kotwali police station limits of the district.
The police identified the deceased as Hiraman, her granddaughter Sumaiya, natives of Panwapur in Utraula town of Balrampur district and Rohit of Asha Shukla Ka Purwa in Basti.
The accident occurred near the Jal Nigam office, close to the district headquarters, at 7am on Wednesday when around 55 migrants were travelling by the DCM truck to Balrampur, Mirzapur, Basti, Sant Kabir nagar, from Ahmedabad, additional superintendent of police Anup Kumar said.
According to the initial investigation, the DCM truck, which was speeding, rammed into stationary onion-laden truck, he said.
The injured, identified as Sarvesh, Anup and Suraj of Mirzapur, Umesh, his son Ram Karan, his daughter Lakshmi, his wife Vimla, Ajay Kumar, Shariq, Nisha and Yaseen of Balrampur, Suresh Kumar, Rahul, Akhilesh and Ram Kumar of Basti, besides others, are undergoing treatment at the district hospital. They have been quarantined, he said.
The bodies were sent to mortuary for post-mortem, the officer added.