Eleven die in road accident in Jhansi

Jhansi: Eleven persons, including seven women and four children, most of them from the same family, died while another half a dozen were injured in Chirgaon area of Jhansi on Friday when a tractor trolley overturned while saving a stray cattle.
Both UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath and MP chief minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan have expressed grief over the incident.MP CM has declared a compensation of Rs 2 lakh each to the kin of all the deceased.
As per the details, all the victims belong to Pandokhar area of Datia district in MP and were going to village Chirona in Chirgaon Tehsil to attend a religious function. As per the bystanders, the driver of the tractor lost control while saving a stray cattle that suddenly came in front of the tractor.
The trolley overturned and all the passengers who were mainly women fell on the roadside trench which was filled with water. Most of the victims died either by drowning or by coming under the trolley. The deceased include four children of which two were boys aged 1.5 and 10 years and two girls aged 1 and 4 years.
The deceased have been identified as Pushpa Devi, 40, Munni Devi 40, Sunita, 35, Pooja Devi 25, Rajo 45, Premwati 50, Kusum 55, Karsaya, 10, Pari, 1, Anushka, 4 and Avi 1.5.
Senior administrative officers from Datia also rushed to Jhansi to help kin of the deceased and those who were injured.
As per DIG Jhansi range, Jogendra Kumar, all the persons were immediately shifted to Jhansi Medical College where 11 persons were declared dead while rest of the injured are undergoing treatment.
Postmortem was performed till late Friday night at the Jhansi Medical College after which the bodies were handed over to the kin of the deceased who took them to their native Pandokhar village in MP where they were cremated on Saturday.