Five people died and several others sustained injuries in two road accidents under Kokhraj police station of Uttar Pradesh’s Kaushambi district on Thursday, police said. Senior police and administrative officials reached the spot and rushed the injured to hospital.
As per reports, residents of Balrampur area of Chhattisgarh had gone to Baijnath Dham with ‘Kanwar’ and were going to Varanasi in a pickup van when their vehicle collided with a stationary container near Gulamipur village early in the morning.
Manipal, 65, Phenku, 62, and Shivkumari, 4,5 died on the spot. Sixteen others in the van were injured. Investigation revealed that 21 people were travelling in the pickup vehicle.
In another incident, a Tata magic vehicle carrying pilgrims was hit by a speeding trailer near Kalyanpur overbridge killing two people identified as Dinesh Kumar, 45, and Amarnath 60. Twenty-eight others in the vehicle were injured.