3 cops, 2 others out to rescue girl in Haryana dead in Yamuna Expressway accident

AGRA: Five people including three Madhya Pradesh police personnel were killed and three others sustained serious injuries when their SUV crashed into a road divider near Milestone 80 on the Yamuna expressway in Mathura’s Surir stretch on Friday.
The cops were heading to Haryana’s Bahadurpura for a raid to rescue a minor girl who had allegedly been kidnapped.
Budera police station in-charge in MP’s Tikamgarh district, Chandan Singh, said that the MP police team was on its way to Haryana after getting information that the abducted girl, a 16-year-old, had been kept somewhere in Bahadurpura. The FIR that has been registered in MP mentions section 363 (abduction) of the IPC.
The dead cops have been identified as head constable Bhawani Singh, woman constable Heera Devi, and constable Kamlendra Yadav. The other two were Ravi Kumar from the Nagar Raksha Samiti, who worked with the police, and car driver Jagdish. In the accident, head constable Ratiram was injured as were one Dharmendra and his wife Preeti, relatives of the man who has been accused of kidnapping the girl. They are in hospital undergoing treatment.
Ratiram said from his hospital bed that eight persons were in the car and that while four died on the spot, one succumbed to injuries later. SP (rural) Shrish Chand said the accident took place around 5 am when the car was heading towards Noida. The SUV the police personnel were in was badly damaged and had split into two. “We have informed MP police about the accident,” he said, adding that it looked like the driver had fallen asleep and rammed the vehicle into a divider.
Last month on November 5, four residents of Ghaziabad, including the wife and son of a retired UP policeman, and the driver of an Agra-Noida bus, were killed in a collision between the two vehicles on the Yamuna Expressway near milestone 71 in Mathura.
Then in February this year, seven people, including four members of one family from Haryana, were killed when an oil tanker hit the road divider and turned turtle near Mathura’s Naujheel area.