Two cops among 7 killed in accident due to fog in Aligarh

The police jeep driver could not see a deep pond adjoining the road and the vehicle plunged in the water.

A police jeep skidded off the road and fell into a pond this morning killing seven persons including two policemen, officials said here.

Dense fog on NH 24 main road Dasna in Ghaziabad, India, on January 26, 2018. (Sakib Ali /Hindustan Times)

According to Senior Superintendent of Police Rajesh Pandey, Sub Inspector Pradeep Sharma and Constable Devinder Yadav were returning after a raid when owing to dense fog, their driver could not see a deep pond adjoining the road and the vehicle plunged in the water drowning all seven passengers.

“Among the deceased was a middle-aged woman and her child,” Pandey said adding that the identity and age of the victims was yet to be ascertained.