New Delhi: Twelve individuals, together with three ladies, had been killed when the autorickshaw they had been touring in collided head-on with a container truck that was mistakenly navigating the unsuitable facet of the highway in Uttar Pradesh on Thursday, information company PTI reported. The collision occurred as a consequence of lowered visibility brought on by fog, police stated.
Based on police sources, reported by the information company PTI, “The occupants of the autorickshaw had been en path to Farrukhabad with the intention of bathing within the Ganga river, marking the auspicious event of ‘Purnima’.”
Following the incident, the motive force of the container truck fled the scene, and subsequent investigations led to the invention of the deserted automobile roughly 12 kilometers away. Authorities are actively working to apprehend the motive force, stated the police.
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Superintendent of Police (SP) Ashok Kumar Meena stated that the unlucky accident occurred on the Bareilly-Farrukhabad highway, close to Sugsugi village within the Allahaganj police station space, roughly 50 kilometers from town. The official additional stated that the container truck, touring from the Jalalabad facet, collided with the autorickshaw, with all twelve passengers, who had been on their method to Ghatia Ghat, Farrukhabad, dying on the spot.
Initially, authorities had stated that the autorickshaw collided with a tanker, however upon reaching the accident website, it was clarified {that a} container truck was concerned within the collision. The victims had been recognized as Lalaram (30) and his brother Puttu Lal (50), Shivpal (45), Surendra Kashyap (50), Ankush (50), Anant Ram (35) and his spouse Basanta Devi (70), Maniram (45), Pothiram (50), Rampa Devi (45), Rupa Devi (50), and Adesh (20), PTI reported.
Based on the eyewitnesses, all of the passengers on the autorickshaw fell onto the highway as a result of collision, with some people getting trapped between the 2 automobiles.