Noida student among two killed in accident

The city woke up to a horrific road accident, in which an Air Force officer's minor daughter and her rickshaw-puller were killed and three other children sustained serious injuries. HT reports.

The city woke up to a horrific road accident, in which an Air Force officer's minor daughter and her rickshaw-puller were killed and three other children sustained serious injuries.

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Reckless driving by a chartered (company staff vehicle) bus driver hit a cycle-rickshaw, ferrying the four children, near Jalvayu Vihar of Sector 25 at 6.30 am on Friday.

The victim girl, Sucheta Majumdar (16), a class XI student of Kendriya Vidyalaya, was the only child of Wing Commander Chandan Majumdar, a resident of Jalvayu Vihar's J Block.

Majumdar is currently serving a Defence intelligence agency, SK Prabhakar, a relative told Hindustan Times.

The three injured children — Bharti Sharma and Aditya Sharma and Nischay Sandhu — were admitted to Prakash Hospital.

Nischay, who had his leg fractured and sustained other serious injuries, was later referred to Kailash Hospital. The rickshaw-puller, who was killed in the collision, was identified as Ram Sagar (40) of Samastipur (Bihar).

"A little after the rickshaw had come out of the society gate, a bus going towards Spice Mall knocked it down. A PCR van standing nearby took the victims to hospital," said eyewitnesses.

Recounting the horror, she said, "The rickshaw-puller was flipped over 10 feet away. We were also pushed out of the rickshaw and we fell sideways. The bus after hitting us rammed into a tree."

Another injured Aditya Sharma, a class I student, said, "My limbs and chest are badly hurting." His father Jitendra Sharma runs a dhaba.

"Bus driver Sarvjit Singh, a resident of Bhajanpura, has been arrested," said Arun Kumar Singh, SHO, Sector 20 police station.