Sunday, November 3, 2013

45 persons killed in Volvo Bus Accident in India 2013 October 30th

The bus, carrying more than 50 passengers, was travelling from Bangalore city to Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh's capital, when the incident happened early on Wednesday.


Seven people, including the driver, managed to escape the blaze.
Police say a collision with a culvert ignited the fuel tank of the vehicle.
The incident happened at Kothakota in Mahbubnagar district, 140km (86 miles) from Hyderabad, when the air-conditioned Volvo luxury bus hit a culvert, police said.
"The diesel tank burst and flames erupted. Before the passengers could realise what had happened, the blaze engulfed the entire bus," residents of the village were quoted as saying by The Hindu newspaper.
Most of the passengers were sleeping when the incident took place.
Seven people, including the driver and his assistant, broke the windows of the bus and managed to flee.
Relatives of passengers wail outside the office of a private bus operator, Jabbar Travels in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh state, India, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013 after their bus crashed into a highway barrier and erupted in flames early WednesdayDistraught relatives of passengers wait outside the office of the company which ran the bus that caught fire on Wednesday
Local police spokesman Venkateshwarlu told the AFP news agency that the police had arrested the driver and his assistant who "tried to run [away]" after fleeing the blaze. Three other passengers were taken to a local hospital.
In 2008, more than 60 people died in a bus fire in northern Uttar Pradesh state.
The fire started when part of a faulty axle dropped on to the road and ruptured the bus's fuel tank.
More than 130,000 people died in road accidents in India in 2011, according to the government's National Crime Records Bureau.
Correspondents say that bus crashes are common in India and often caused by poorly maintained vehicles, overloading and reckless driving.

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Muzaffarnagar violence: Death toll climbs to 38, curfew continues in riot-hit areas

Muzaffarnagar violence: Death toll reaches 38
Curfew on Tuesday remained in force in riot-hit areas of Muzaffarnagar with the army patrolling troubled places as the death toll rose to 38. Over 360 people have been arrested in connection so far. Muzaffarnagar violence: Supreme Court agrees to hear PIL seeking CBI probe into communal clashes Muzaffarnagar violence: Akhilesh asks officials to make arrangement for treatment of injured SP unfazed by Azam Khan?s absence in party?s national executive meet Curfew relaxed in Muzaffarnagar, constable injured in Baghpat Political parties could be behind Muzaffarnagar violence, says Shinde The Home Secretary said that no fresh incident has been reported and the situation is under control. Curfew in three police station areas of Muzaffarnagar - Civil Lines, Kotwali and Nai Mandi - was continuing and Army was patrolling the troubled areas in Muzaffarnagar, Shamli and Meerut, Saxena said. Prohibitory orders are being enforced strictly and a strict watch is being maintained on mischievous elements. FIRs were on Monday registered against BJP legislative party leader Hukum Singh, MLAs Suresh Rana, Bhartendu, Sangeet Som and former Congress MP Harendra Malik among others for violating prohibitory orders and some of the senior leaders who tried to go to Muzaffarnagar, including Union Minister Ajit Singh. The injured are undergoing treatment in various hospitals and the affected people have been shifted to safer places. The government has constituted a one-member Judicial Commission headed by (retd) Justice Vishnu Sahai to probe into the Muzaffarnagar violence. Tension has been running high since three persons were killed in Kawal village on August 27 over an eveteasing incident. The violence had occurred as a meeting was being held in Naglabadhod in defiance of prohibitory orders to demand withdrawal of cases registered in connection with August 27 violence in Kawal. Concerned over the incidents, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday spoke to Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and assured him of all assistances from the Centre to deal with the situation.
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Muzaffarnagar violence: UP Governor sends report to Centre


Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Governor BL Joshi has sent his report on the Muzaffarnagar violence, in which 28 persons were killed, to the Centre, official sources said on Monday.

UP Governor sends report to Centre
UP Governor sends report to Centre

The report has been sent to the Centre on Sunday itself, a senior official said. In the report, the Governor has cited the sequence of events beginning August 27, when three persons were killed in Kawal town of Muzaffarnagar over an incident of eve-teasing.
  
Sources said Joshi has also stated other details regarding administrative lapses as well as the situation prevailing in the town presently. Curfew has been imposed in riot-hit areas of Muzaffarnagar in the wake of the violence.

Death toll reaches 28, curfew remains in force
Curfew remained in force in riot-hit areas of Muzaffarnagar where the death toll climbed to 28. Over 200 persons were arrested and around 1000 persons, including four BJP MLAs and a former Congress MP were booked for inciting violence.

Under fire over the violence, the Uttar Pradesh government transferred Saharanpur DIG DD Mishra and SHO, Phugana, Omveer. Violence-hit Muzaffarnagar falls in Saharanpur range.

"The death toll in the violence has reached 28 so far. SHO, Phugana, Omveer has been removed from the post as most of the violence was witnessed in the area...We are also cancelling arms licenses in Phugana, Shahpur, Dhaurakalan as they were misused during the violence,” ADG, Law and Order, Arun Kumar told reporters in Muzaffarnagar.

He said FIRs have been registered against BJP legislative party leader Hukum Singh, MLAs Suresh Rana, Bhartendu, Sangeet Som and former Congress MP Harendra Malik for violating prohibitory orders.

Cases have been registered against a total of 1000 persons including some people who are yet to be identified, he said. Meanwhile, UP Governor BL Joshi has sent his report on the Muzaffarnagar violence to the Centre, official sources said in Lucknow. The report was sent on Sunday.

In the report, the Governor has cited the sequence of events beginning on August 27, when three persons were killed in Kawal town of Muzaffarnagar over an incident of eveteasing. Sources said the Governor has also stated other details regarding the administrative lapses as well as the situation prevailing in the town.

Kumar said no violence was reported in the district after Sunday midnight. Secretary Home, Kamal Saxena said that 45 injured persons are undergoing treatment in various hospitals in Muzaffarnagar. He said the situation in Muzaffarnagar was under control, adequate force has been dispatched and senior officers were camping there.

Army had on Sunday staged a flag march in the troubled district and surrounding areas. Over 200 persons have been arrested in connection with the violence, Saxena said. "As it (violence) is going on in several villages, it is taking time to defuse the situation," Kumar said.

Curfew remained in force in Civil Lines, Kotwali and Nai Mandi town areas of the district. Officials said apart from army, 10,000 Provincial Armed Constabulary personnel, 1300 CRPF men and 1200 Rapid Action Force personnel have been deployed.
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Eleven killed in road accident in Jaunpur


 At least 11 people were killed in a road accident in Jaunpur district of Uttar Pradesh on Friday night around 11.00 pm after a jeep carrying a group of people skidded from a bridge and fell into Sai River in Jalalpur area.
The victims were brought to a local hospital in the wee early morning hours on Saturday (March 02) where eleven of them were declared dead.
"At about 12.40 am (local time) all the victims of the accident were brought in. Four of them were brought in injured condition. While one of them succumbed to his injuries, the other three were given treatment.
Ten people had already died on the spot. So a total of eleven people have died," said S. P. Narayan, a doctor at the local hospital.
Narayan also informed that two of the injured persons have been shifted to a hospital in the nearby city of Varanasi as their condition was critical.
After the postmortem the bodies were handed over to their family members.
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Sad story of aircraft crashes and politicians Press Trust Of India

Sad story of aircraft crashes and politicians 
 Arunachal Pradesh chief minister Dorjee Khandu's death in a helicopter crash adds another sad chapter to the story of politicians who have died in chopper and airplane accidents in the country over the past several decades. The tragedy is a grim reminder of the deaths in aerial crashes involving Indian politicians - YS Rajasekhara Reddy, Sanjay Gandhi, Madhavrao Scindia, GMC Balayogi, S Mohan Kumaramangalam, OP Jindal, Surendra Singh, Dera Natung and C Sangma. Some also had a narrow escape in aerial accidents in a country where helicopters are frequently used to ferry VIPs and where helicopter is a major mode of transport in the North East. Sad story of aircraft crashes and politicians Khandu's death adds another chapter to the story of politicians who have died in aerial crashes. The previous air accident which claimed the life of a politician was the crash of a helicopter in which Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy was onboard. The chopper of the senior Congress leader, popularly known as YSR, crashed in a forest while flying in a Bell 430 to Chitoor district in Andhra Pradesh. His body was traced 27 hours after the helicopter went missing on September 3, 2009. Perhaps one of the first Indian political leaders to die in a plane crash was freedom fighter Subhas Chandra Bose - on Aug 18, 1945 in present day Taiwan. But many insist to this day that he survived. Sanjay Gandhi, the younger son of then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, was killed when a glider he was flying crashed soon after taking off from the Safdarjung airport in Delhi on June 23, 1980. Madhavrao Scindia, a senior Congress leader and a former union cabinet minister, was killed in a Cessna aircraft crash on September 30, 2001 while travelling to Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh to address a public rally. Lok Sabha Speaker and Telugu Desam leader G M C Balayogi died in a chopper crash on March 3, 2002 in Andhra Pradesh. Balayogi was in a Bell 206 helicopter. An official probe ruled that the crash was caused when the pilot, unable to continue due to poor visibility, mistakenly landed on a pond thinking it was a land surface. Mohan Kumaramangalam, from the Congress, died in an Indian Airlines plane crash in 1973 near New Delhi. OP Jindal, Haryana's then power minister and a noted industrialist, and state agriculture minister Surendra Singh were killed when the chopper carrying them developed a technical snag and went down near Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh on March 31, 2005. Arunachal Pradesh education minister Natung was killed in a helicopter crash in May 2001. Sangma, the then Meghalaya community development minister, three legislators and six others were killed in a helicopter crash in September 2004. Punjab governor Surendra Nath and nine members of his family were killed when the government's Super-King aircraft crashed into high mountains in bad weather on July 9, 1994 in Himachal Pradesh. Nath was then acting Himachal governor also. But many were lucky. Former Prime Minister Morarji Desai famously escaped when his special aircraft crashed in Assam in November 1977. PK Thungon, who was the then Arunachal Pradesh chief minister and was accompanying him, also survived.
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15 killed, 24 injured in Uttar Pradesh bus accident

 UP: 15 killed, 24 injured in bus accident
Amroha: At least 15 people were killed and 24 others injured, two of them critically, when a bus rammed into a tree on Amroha-Joya road in the wee hours of Monday. The incident took place at around 2 AM when the overloaded bus coming from Haridwar was on its way to Kamalpura village in Sambal district, police said. While 13 persons were killed on the spot, two others succumbed to injuries in a hospital. All the victims belong to an extended family and were returning from Haridwar after attending a 'mundan' ceremony. Shakeel Ahmed, ASP, J P Nagar said, "Investigation and rescue work are on". The driver fled from the accident spot. The injured are admitted in Amroha and Moradabad government hospitals. - See more at: http://post.jagran.com/15-killed-24-injured-in-Uttar-Pradesh-bus-accident-1340597172#sthash.qy0w5THn.dpuf
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DGCA orders an inquiry into the crash of a Pawan Hans helicopter


DGCA 300x199 DGCA orders an inquiry into the crash of a Pawan Hans helicopter
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation, DGCA, has ordered an inquiry into the crash of a Pawan Hans helicopter in Arunachal Pradesh. Officials in New Delhi said a high level team of DGCA officers led by Director General E K Bharat Bhushan will visit the accident site today.
Seventeen people were killed and six seriously injured in a helicopter crash in Tawang town of Arunachal Pradesh on Tuesday. The MI-172 Pawan Hans helicopter with 23 people on board caught fire and crashed into a gorge while landing at Tawang. The helicopter fell from a height of 15 metres.
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Centre forms panel to probe Tawang chopper crash in arrunachal pradesh


This April 19, 2011 photos shows a Pawan Hans chopper crashing into a gorge while landing in Tawang town of Arunachal Pradesh. A Committee of Inquiry has been appointed to probe the crash, which claimed 17 lives.
PTI This April 19, 2011 photos shows a Pawan Hans chopper crashing into a gorge while landing in Tawang town of Arunachal Pradesh. A Committee of Inquiry has been appointed to probe the crash, which claimed 17 lives.
The government has appointed a Committee of Inquiry to probe the circumstances of the Pawan Hans helicopter crash at Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh on April 19 that claimed the lives of 17 people.
The committee, headed by Air Marshal (Retd.) P.P. Rajkumar, will have Air Commodore (Retd.) Rai Krishan and Wing Commander (Retd.) Rabinder Singh as members. M.J. Singh, Deputy Director of Air Safety, will be the secretary.
The panel, which will also take the help of experts and agencies, if need be, will have its headquarters here. It will submit its report to the Central government within three months, says an official release here.
Pawan Hans Helicopters Ltd. has announced an interim compensation of Rs. 1 lakh for those killed and Rs. 50,000 for the injured. Final compensation shall, however, be determined as per law.
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17 killed as copter falls into gorge


Army personnel and villagers having a look at the remains of a Pawan Hans helicopter which crashed in Tawang on Tuesday. Photo: Special Arrangement
Army personnel and villagers having a look at the remains of a Pawan Hans helicopter which crashed in Tawang on Tuesday. Photo: Special Arrangement
People watch after a Pawan Hans chopper, with 23 people on board, crashed into a gorge while landing in Tawang, Arunachal Pradesh. Photo: PTI
PTIPeople watch after a Pawan Hans chopper, with 23 people on board, crashed into a gorge while landing in Tawang, Arunachal Pradesh.




Second such crash in Tawang district, Arunachal Pradesh


In one of the worst helicopter crashes in Arunachal Pradesh, 17 persons, including three crew members, were killed and six injured when it caught fire and plunged into a gorge in Tawang city on Tuesday.

The Pawan Hans Mi-17 copter was flying to Tawang from the Lokopriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport in Guwahati and had taken off at 12.45 p.m., agency sources said.

Pilots Captain Varun Gupta and Captain A.K. Tiwari were scheduled to land at the Tawang civil helipad at 1.20 p.m. It caught fire, broke into pieces and crashed into a gorge close to the helipad around 1.57 p.m., the sources said.

Six survive

Two crew members and four passengers survived with grievous injuries, Tawang Deputy Commissioner Gamlin Padu said.

The injured were rushed to the civil hospital at Tawang and would be airlifted to Guwahati on Wednesdays, the Deputy Commissioner said.

This is the second helicopter crash in Tawang district bordering China.

On November 19 last, an Indian Air Force Mi-17 chopper crashed minutes after takeoff, killing all 12 on board.

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12 killed in IAF helicopter crash


TRAGEDY AT TAWANG: Army personnel look for survivors at the site of an IAF helicopter crash on the outskirts of Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh on Friday.


An Indian Air Force (IAF) MI-17 helicopter crashed at Bomdir near Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh on Friday, killing all 12 defence personnel on board. The victims included an Army official of the rank of lieutenant colonel and 11 IAF personnel, including two pilots.
IAF spokesperson Wing Commander Ranjib Sahoo, based in the Eastern Air Command headquarters in Shillong, told The Hindu that all the bodies have been retrieved from the crash site, about 10 km from Tawang.
A court of inquiry has been ordered.
Defence sources said the chopper, bound for Guwahati, crashed minutes after it took off from the helipad of the Army Brigade Headquarters in Tawang at 12.04 p.m. It was on an air maintenance sortie
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Thursday, September 5, 2013

Heavy rains lash north India: 73 dead and 72,000 stranded; Uttarakhand worst hit



Rain fury on Tuesday claimed 11 more lives in the north India, taking the toll to 73, even as 71,440 pilgrims bound for the Himalayan shrines remained stranded in monsoon-ravaged Uttarakhand apart from 1700 people stuck in Himachal Pradesh. 
Though rescue efforts picked up momentum in flash flood and landslide hit areas of Himachal and Uttarakhand with a let up in the rains and decrease in water level in the Ganga and its tributaries, the whole of Uttarakhand still wore a marooned and devastated look.
Flashfloods, cloudbursts and subsequent landslips have claimed 44 lives in Uttarakhand, left as many injured and fully damaged 175 houses across the state.

Rudraprayag was the worst hit where 20 people perished and 73 building including 40 hotels along the banks of the Alaknanda were swept away by the swirling waters of the river.
A huge number of pilgrims totalling 71,440, who were bound for the Himalayan shrines of Kedarnath, Badrinath, Gangotri and Yamunotri are stranded in Rudraprayag, Chamoli and Uttarkashi districts with the famous char dham yatra still suspended due to massive damage to the road network.
The maximum number of 27040 devotees are stranded in Chamoli, 25000 in Rudraprayag and 9,850 in Uttarkashi, Disaster Management authorities said.
Officials said water level of Bhagirathi in Uttarkashi and Ganga in Rishikesh had begun to recede.
In Himachal Pradesh, chief minister Virbhadra Singh, who was stranded in tribal Kinnaur district for nearly 60 hours due to landslides triggered by incessant rains, was evacuated this morning even as 1700 people remained stranded at various places.
A chopper hired by Congress party airlifted the chief minister this morning as rains abated and weather cleared this morning and about a dozen persons, including some old and ailing persons were brought to Rampur in the state helicopter, officials said.
Television footage showed bridges, houses and other buildings crashing down and being washed away by the swirling waters. A swollen river is seen engulfing a giant statue of Lord Shiva in the tourist city of Rishikesh in Uttarakhand.
Fresh rains in Uttarakhand were hampering rescue efforts, with teams from the national disaster management authority camping in the popular pilgrimage town of Haridwar awaiting air lift to the worst-affected districts, officials said.
The state government was also readying food parcels and drinking water to be dropped by helicopters to remote villages cut-off by the torrential rains.
"The situation is very grim. The meteorological office has predicted that the rain will continue for another three days at least," government official Amit Chandola was quoted by television stations as saying.
In the neighbouring state of Himachal Pradesh, at least eight people were feared dead, a local police official said by telephone.
Houses are submerged as trucks flow in flood waters of the Bhagirathi River in Shrinagar district in Uttarakhand. (AP Photo)
A few villages close to the border with China have also seen unseasonal snowfall, leaving dozens of shepherds and thousands of sheep stranded, a village headman said.
The met department predicted more rains over the next two days in northern India.
Sources say more than 60,000 people are stranded at different places on the route of the Chardham Yatra - Yamunotri, Gangotri, Badrinath and Kedarnath.
The onward trip to Hemkunt Saheb - the sacred pilgrimage for Sikhs - has also been abandoned for now, officials say.
At many places while the gushing rivers have washed away roads and caused land slides, flood waters has entered several villages on banks of the Alaknanda river.
The Kailash Mansarovar Yatra has also been stopped for now.
The Ganga is flowing two metres above the danger mark and an alert has been sounded and people have been asked to desist from bathing in the holy river.
People gather at the site of a road accident on the Hardiwar-Mana national highway, in Uttarakhand. (AP Photo)
Army officials say bases have been made for rescue operations in Bareilly and Sarsawa.
Members of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) are however unable to move further from Dehradun owing to inclement weather.
Fourteen choppers of the Indian Army have also been put on standby for rescue  operations.
Uttarakhand chief minister Vijay Bahuguna while admitting  that the situation was "grave", said that the government was working swiftly to rescue people stranded at different places and providing relief to the flood effected areas.
The public works department (PWD) of Uttarakhand has confirmed "serious damage" to 450 roads in the state.
Regional Met director of Uttarakhand Anand Sharma said the situation might slightly improve from Tuesday evening onwards as the rains are likely to subside.
Several trains, including Sriganganagar Express, Hemkund Express and Janshatabdi have been cancelled due to flooding of tracks, a railway official said.
A view of the overflowing Mandakini River damaging houses in Kedarnath Valley in Rudraprayag district. (PTI Photo)
Incessant rains in Nainital since Monday has raised the level of the lake by five feet and most tourists were forced to spend their holiday indoors. 
In Uttar Pradesh, the Malan and Ganga rivers are in spate in western parts of the state and the army has been called in Mandawar and Rawli areas of Bijnore.
Several houses collapsed in Sardhana area of Meerut while 18 people were killed in Saharanpur in roof collapse and a car was washed away by rain water.
The rains, which began Saturday night, have continued for the past three days. The Met department said the rains in the month of June have since broken an 88-year record. Between Saturday and Sunday, Dehra Dun received 220 mm of rains and by evening, another 220 mm of rains.
The worst-hit areas include Rudraprayag and Uttarkashi, where Mandakini river is in spate. In Rambada, the river water entered the market area.
With the met department having forecast more thunder showers, the already grave situation may worsen with more landslides as the hillsides have become weak following incessant rain, said the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF).
In Himachal, five members of a family, including three children, were buried alive early Monday when boulders fell on their house at Chagaon village near Tapri, some 220 km from Shimla, Superintendent of Police G. Shiva Kumar said over phone.
The entire Kinnaur district has been experiencing heavy rain for the past two days, while Pooh block experienced over one feet of snow, which locals said was untimely.
Shiva Kumar said five other people died in various landslide and rain-related incidents in the district since Sunday.
All the deaths in Uttar Pradesh were in Saharanpur, where many pilgrims are trapped in the Shakumbhari Devi area following the rain and floods.

Among the dead were a chief medical officer from Punjab and his family of five, who drowned after being caught in raging river waters.
Flooding has been reported from Saharanpur, Bijnore, Muzaffarnagar, Gorakhpur, Siddharthanagar, Azamgarh, Lakhimpur Kheri, Ballia and Varanasi.
Delhi saw heavy rains over the weekend and intermittent showers continued Monday morning. The city received 58.5 mm of rain from 8.30 p.m. Sunday to 8.30 a.m. Monday, leaving roads inundated and traffic snarls in the morning rush hour.
In Haryana, rescue teams Monday evacuated 52 villagers, including 15 children, from a riverine island in Yamunanagar district while rescue operations were on in Karnal district where nearly 200 people were stranded in Shergarh Tapu and Chandrao villages.
The Yamuna river, which enters Haryana from Uttarakhand at Hathnikund barrage in Yamunanagar district, had swelled since early Saturday after over 800,000 cusecs of water was released Monday morning through the Hathnikund barrage.
With the water expected to reach Delhi on Tuesday, the city government Monday began evacuating people from low-lying areas along the banks of the Yamuna.
The monsoon this year had set over Kerala on schedule June 1 and advanced fast, covering the southern, eastern and central states within two weeks.

(With inputs from AFP, PTI, IANS)
 
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Twelve die in Himachal accident



Twelve die in Himachal accident
Twelve people, all belonging to a village in Himachal Pradesh's Chamba district, were killed when a private vehicle skidded off the road and fell into a 700-metre-deep gorge Sunday night, police officials said.
All 12 bodies were recovered early Monday from the wreckage of the vehicle, an official told IANS.

The victims, all from Kuthar village, were returning in a multi-utility vehicle after playing a cricket match.

Police officials said the accident occurred Sunday night in Badgran panchayat in Bharmour subdivision, some 85 km from district headquarters Chamba.

Eyewitnesses said the authorities had a tough time extricating the victims from the gorge.

Chamba is one of remotest places in the state and scarcity and low frequency of passenger buses in the district leads to overcrowding of vehicles.
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27 feared dead in Himachal bus accident



27 feared dead in Himachal bus accident

Shimla: A bus fell into a 1,000 foot deep gorge in Himachal Pradesh's Bilaspur district leaving behind at least 27 passengers killed, officials said Tuesday.

The accident happened on Monday near Danoh, 150 km from here. As many as 25 people were injured.

A bus carrying passengers from Bilaspur to Bandla had broken down. Another bus that was coming on the same route stopped to pick up the passengers of the bus.

"Because of the darkness, the bus driver couldn't see the edge of the road. While the passengers were getting on to the bus it rolled down the hill and fell into a 1,000-foot deep gorge," Deputy Commissioner Ritesh Chauhan told reporters.

Superintendent of Police Santosh Patial said most of the victims died on the spot.

The rescue operation was still on, he added.

The government has ordered an inquiry.
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11 dead in Himachal road accident

11 dead in Himachal road accident




















At least 11 people were killed and nine injured when an overcrowded multi-utility vehicle skidded off the road and fell into a gorge in Himachal Pradesh's Sirmaur district Saturday, police said.

The injured were admitted to the Civil Hospital in Paonta Sahib. Some of the injured have been referred to Chandigarh's Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research (PGIMER).

The accident took place near Timbi village near Paonta Sahib town, about 120 km from district headquarters town of Nahan, Additional Superintendent of Police Sanjeev Lakhanpal told IANS by telephone.

He said most of the victims belonged to villages in Shillai block of Paonta Sahib subdivision.

Eyewitnesses told the police the driver was driving the vehicle rashly.

Sirmaur is among the remote areas of the state, where very few passenger buses ply on roads, leading to overcrowding of private vehicles.
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Eight pilgrims die in Himachal road mishap


 
Eight pilgrims die in Himachal road mishapEight pilgrims, mostly from Kanpur city of Uttar Pradesh, were killed and 42 others injured when the private bus in which they were travelling rolled down a gorge in Himachal Pradesh, police said Sunday.

The pilgrims had returned from Amarnath in Jammu and Kashmir, and were on a visit to prominent Hindu shrines of this hill state.

The bus rolled into a 250-metre-deep gorge on the outskirts of Kangra town, 250 km from state capital Shimla, around 10 p.m. Saturday, police officer Mulk Raj said on phone.

The dead were six men and two women. The injured were admitted to Rajendra Prasad Medical College and Hospital in Tanda, 30 km from the accident spot.

"They were travelling from Chamunda Devi temple to Jwalaji temple," he said, adding that the cause of the accident was yet to be ascertained.
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42 killed in road accidents in N India


India has the highest number of road accidents in the world.
 
At least 42 people, including 33 family members of a marriage ceremony, have been killed and seven others injured in two separate accidents in northern India.
The accidents happened in Chamba district of Himachal Pradesh in northern India on Wednesday evening and early Thursday, Xinhua reported.
A truck carrying members of a family from Chaura to Shekhpur plunged into a 300-feet gorge near Shekhpur early Thursday, killing 33 people, the report added.
Seven wounded passengers were rushed to a state-run hospital while police carried out rescue operations.
In a separate accident, nine people lost their lives when their vehicle rolled into another gorge in the same district.

In early January, at least 22 people were killed and 19 others sustained injures after a bus veered off the road and plunged into a ravine in India's northern state of Uttarakhand.

The World Health Organization has revealed in its first ever Global Status Report on Road Safety that more people die in road accidents in India than anywhere else in the world, including the more populous China.

More than 110,000 people die each year across the country in crashes caused by speeding, bad roads, overcrowding and poor vehicle maintenance, according to police.
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18 killed as bus rolls into 500-feet deep gorge in Himachal's Sirmaur





Eight bodies have been recovered so far. - Pic for representation

At least 18 people were killed on Friday and an equal number injured when a private bus carrying passengers skidded off the road and fell into a 500-feet deep gorge in Himachal Pradesh's Sirmaur district, police said.
Eighteen bodies have been recovered, Superintendent of Police Sumedha Diwedi said.
The bus was carrying at least 35 passengers on board at the time of the accident, and many have been injured. The police officer said the injured were being treated at hospitals in Rajgarh and Solan towns.
The bus, ferrying passengers from Punardhar to Solan town, met with the accident near Bharari village in Sangrah subdivision, some 130 km from district headquarters Nahan.
Sirmaur is one of remotest places in the state. Buses plying there have poor frequency, and the scarcity of means of transport often leads of overcrowding of vehicles.
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51 killed, 46 injured as bus falls into Himachal gorge

Himachal Pradesh, Bus Accident, Chamba At least 51 people, including 18 women, were killed and 46 others injured Saturday when an overcrowded bus rolled into a 300-feet deep gorge in Chamba in Himachal Pradesh, police said. Most of the victims were going to Chamba town to participate in the Minjar, a Hindu fair that symbolises the blossoming of maize.
The private bus was going to Chamba town from Dularo village when it skidded off the road and fell into the 300-feet deep gorge near Gagaala, some 12 km from the town and around 475 km from the state capital.
"The 40-seater bus was overcrowded. People were even sitting on its roof," Chamba Deputy Commissioner Sunil Chaudhary told IANS.
He said 37 people, including the driver, died on the spot.
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Himachal bus accident toll rises to 38 in Kullu (Himachal Pradesh), May 9


Bus accident in Himachal Pradesh The death toll in a an accident in which a bus skidded off the road and plunged into the Beas river rose to 38, officials said Thursday. Seven people were still critical.
Police officials said negligent driving was the cause of the accident Wednesday, as the driver, who jumped off the bus just before the bus plunged into the river, was on cellphone.
The 42-seater private bus carrying over 70 passengers was going to Ani town from Kullu when it fell into the river near Jhari, some 20 km from here. The accident spot, known for white water rafting, is 250 km from the state capital Shimla.
Rescue workers said rafters rescued 17 passengers trapped in the wreckage of the bus. Eyewitnesses said the administration had a tough time in extricating the victims from the bus, although villagers and private rafters started the rescue operations before the authorities could reach the spot.
Meanwhile, the government has ordered a magisterial probe into the accident. Kullu Deputy Commissioner Sharab Negi told IANS that search operation is on along the banks of the river as some of the passengers might have swept away.
Scarcity and low frequency of passenger buses in Himachal Pradesh often leads to overcrowding of transport vehicles.
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52 killed as bus falls into gorge in Himachal Pradesh

  At least 52 people, including 18 women and two children, were today killed and 46 others injured when an overcrowded private bus veered off the road and fell into a gorge in Himachal Pradesh's Chamba district.

The mishap took place near Rajera, 8 km from the district headquarters of Chamba, when the bus driver lost control over the vehicle after a tyre burst and it fell into the 250-feet- deep gorge, police said.

The 42-seater bus, on its way to Chamba from Dulera, was carrying over 100 passengers and many of them were travelling on the roof of the vehicle when the tragedy struck, they said.

As many as 39 people, including the driver, died on the spot, while 13 succumbed to their injuries in the hospital.

"All the bodies have been recovered," Chamba Deputy Commissioner Sunil Chowdhary said.

The injured were rushed to a hospital in Chamba where the condition of 12 is stated to be critical.

Himachal Assembly Speaker Tulsi Ram and local MLA B K Chauhan rushed to the spot and supervised the relief and rescue operations.

Of the total relief of Rs. 1 lakh each announced for the family of the deceased, the district administration distributed immediate relief of Rs. 10,000 each to the next of the kin of the victims, while the seriously injured were provided medical aid and relief of Rs. 5,000 each.

A magisterial enquiry has been instituted to ascertain the cause of the accident, officials said.

Chief Minister P K Dhumal has expressed grief over the tragedy and directed the local administration to provide relief to the victims.
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Posted on 5:47 AM | Categories:

52 killed, 46 injured as bus falls into gorge in Himachal Pradesh



At least 52 people, including 18 women and two children, were today killed and 46 others injured when an overcrowded private bus veered off the road and fell into a gorge in Himachal Pradesh's Chamba district.
The mishap took place near Rajera, 8km from the district headquarters of Chamba, when the bus driver lost control over the vehicle after a tyre burst and it fell into the 250-feet- deep gorge, police said.
The 42-seater bus, on its way to Chamba from Dulera, was carrying over 100 passengers with large number of them travelling on the roof of the vehicle when the tragedy struck, they said.
As many as 39 people, including the driver, died on the spot, while 13 succumbed to their injuries in the hospital. "All the bodies have been recovered," Chamba deputy commissioner Sunil Chowdhary said.
The injured were rushed to a hospital in Chamba where the condition of 12 are stated to be critical.
Himachal assembly speaker Tulsi Ram and local MLA BK Chauhan rushed to the spot and supervised the relief and rescue operations.
Of the total relief of Rs 1 lakh each announced for the family of the deceased, the district administration distributed immediate relief of Rs 10,000 each to the next of the kin of the victims, while the seriously injured were provided medical aid and relief of Rs 5,000 each.
A magisterial enquiry has been instituted to ascertain the cause of the accident, officials said. Chief minister PK Dhumal has expressed grief over the tragedy and directed the local administration to provide relief to the victims.
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Road accidents claim 3,479 lives in last 3 years in Himachal













In an awakening revelation at Vidhan Sabha transport minister Mohinder Singh said that drunken driving, human errors, bad roads, weather conditions and mechanical failures have claimed 3,479 deaths in road accidents during the past three years in Himachal Pradesh.
Minister was responding to a question by Anil Kumar and Yog Raj (Congress), told the Vidhan Sabha during question hour that majority (97.84%) accidents occurred due to drunken driving and human errors. Only about 1.52% of these occurred due to bad road conditions and 0.64% due to mechanical failures, the minister said.
Providing details on steps taken to reduce such incidents, he said 536 accident prone sites had been identified and 248 has been taken care of and department is working to improve other remained sites.
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28 die in Himachal bus accident

28 die in Himachal bus accident
 off the road and fell into a 500-foot-deep gorge Monday night in Himachal Pradesh's Kangra district, an official said.
Twenty-eight bodies have been recovered from the wreckage of the bus, while five injured have been hospitalised, Deputy Commissioner K. R. Bharti told IANS Tuesday.
The 42-seater bus, ferrying passengers from Palampur to Asha Puri, a village known for a hilltop shrine, had been overcrowded, one of the survivors told police.
The survivors told the police that most of passengers alighted from the bus at Makol village, just a few kilometres before the accident.
The authorities had to call the Indian Army from Palampur, which is 250 km from here, to undertake the rescue operation as the accident spot was treacherous and thickly forested.
The driver was adjusting his seat when the accident occurred. "Most probably, the driver was distracted while adjusting the seat," Bharti said.
The government has ordered a magisterial probe into the accident.
Most of the victims were locals and belonged to closely-knit families. The rescue operations are still on.
Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal has expressed grief over the accident.
This is the second major accident in the state in less than a month. Fifty-three people were killed and 46 injured Aug 11 when an overcrowded private bus rolled into a 300-feet deep gorge in Chamba district in the state. (IANS)
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Himachal bus accident: Death toll rises to 52

Himachal bus accident: Death toll rises to 52

















The 42-seater bus, on its way to Chamba from Dulera, was carrying over 100 passengers.
As many as 39 people, including the driver, died on the spot, while 13 succumbed to their injuries in the hospital.
"All the bodies have been recovered," Chamba Deputy Commissioner Sunil Chowdhary said.
The injured were rushed to a hospital in Chamba where the conditions of 12 are stated to be critical.
Himachal Assembly Speaker Tulsi Ram and local MLA BK Chauhan rushed to the spot and supervised the relief and rescue operations.
Of the total relief of Rs 1 lakh each announced for the family of the deceased, the district administration distributed immediate relief of Rs 10,000 each to the next of the kin of the victims, while the seriously injured were provided medical aid and relief of Rs 5,000 each.
A magisterial enquiry has been instituted to ascertain the cause of the accident, officials said.
Chief Minister PK Dhumal has expressed grief over the tragedy and directed the local administration to provide relief to the victims.
Posted on 5:42 AM | Categories:

12 dead in Himachal bus accident


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At least 12 people were killed on the spot and 26 injured six of them seriously. The injured have been referred to PGI in Chandigarh in three different ambulances from Dharamsala.
A tourist bus, carrying pilgrims from Delhi, veered off the road and plunged into a gorge in Kangra district of Himachal Pradesh late tonight, killing 12 and injuring 26, according to Himachal Pradesh Transport Minister G S Bali.
The bus, with about 38 aboard, was carrying pilgrims from Delhi to the state when the accident occurred at about 1135 hrs at Charan Khad, in a second major accident at the same spot on this day in two years, he said.
Bali said there was no immediate word on what caused the accident, while rejecting the driver’s version that it was due to the locking of the steering of the vehicle.
He said senior district administration officials, including Kangra DC Bharat Khera, along with a medical team, rushed to the accident site immediately to supervise relief and rescue operations, which were being hampered due to darkness.
The injured have been admitted to the Dr Rajender Prasad Medical College and Hospital here where the doctors described the condition of several of them stable while di
Posted on 5:41 AM | Categories:

IPS Narendra Kumar’s death is an accident not murder : CBI


While filing a chargesheet, CBI has claimed that killing of Madhya Pradesh IPS officer Narendra Kumar is the case of negligence and not murder as driver of the vehicle responsible of officer’s death has nothing to do with any kind of mining mafia.
Chargesheet filed by CBI reads, ‘Manoj Gurjar, driver of the vehicle had nothing to do with any kind of mining mafia. He was taking the stones for his own personal use.’ It is noted that Sub-divisional police officer Narendra Kumar was killed at the time he was trying to stop the tractor loaded with mined stones.
Manoj Gurjar was arrested by Morena police. He pleaded in court by saying that death of IPS officer was an accident and not a pre-planned murder. Father of Kumar, Keshav Dev alleged that his son was murdered as he was taking strong actions against mining mafias.
Posted on 5:29 AM | Categories:

Accident victims left in lurch



Rescuers inspect a mangled train compartment after a crash in Shivpuri district of MP on Monday.
Rescuers inspect a mangled train compartment after a crash in Shivpuri district of MP on Monday. — AFP

All Railway employees, including the Station Master of the Badarwas Railway Station in Madhya Pradesh near Guna, are reported to have abandoned their posts early on Monday morning after a goods train rammed into the stationary Indore-Gwalior Inter-City Express. Twenty passengers were killed and 50 injured, according to the Railways.

While the head-on collision is being attributed to heavy rain and poor visibility, the Bhopal Divisional Railway Manager Ghanshyam Singh told PTI that the staff were indeed found missing at the station after the accident. RPF personnel, he said, had been directed to search for them.
The Station Master, who had apparently fled the scene, was traced later in the day and his blood sample was collected to ascertain reports that liquor bottles were found in his chamber. The DRM said that an inquiry had been ordered into the accident, adding action would be taken against those found guilty. The accident took place around 4.45 am when the freight train of North-Central Railway entered the wrong track and hit the stationary passenger train head on.
Posted on 5:28 AM | Categories:

Madhya Pradesh minister, four others injured in road accident

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Madhya Pradesh Minister of State for Agriculture Brajendra Pratap Singh and four others, including a former MP, were injured when the vehicle they were travelling in collided with a truck at Hardua village near. Accident in Madhya Pradesh, road accident in Madhya Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh minister injured,
Posted on 5:28 AM | Categories:

14 killed after bus collides with truck in MP

 
Sixteen people were killed and 24 others injured today when their bus collided head-on with a truck near Naugaon Navodaya Vidyalaya, about 20 kms from here. The bus was on its way to Chhatarpur from Harpalpur when it dashed with a Naugaon-bound truck loaded with cement around 7 AM, police said. Representational image. AFP The accident claimed 12 lives on the spot while four others succumbed to injuries on way to a nearby hospital. Chhattarpur Collector Rajesh Bahuguna and other officials reached the spot soon after the mishap. 13 persons, eight in serious condition, were admitted in the Chhatarpur district hospital while the remaining are undergoing treatment at Nougaon civil hospital, police said. The district collector has announced an ex-gratia of Rs one lakh each to the deceased person and Rs 10,000 each to the injured passengers.
Posted on 5:25 AM | Categories:

15 killed in Madhya Pradesh bus accident in Chhatarpur (MP)



  15 people were killed and over 30 injured when their bus collided head-on with a truck near Naugaon Navodaya Vidyalaya, about 20 killometres from Chhatarpur.

The bus was on its way to Chhatarpur from Harpalpur when it crashed into a Naugaon-bound truck loaded with cement around 6 am on Tuesday, police said.

The accident claimed 12 lives on the spot while four others succumbed to injuries en route to a nearby hospital.

Chhattarpur Collector Rajesh Bahuguna and other officials reached the spot soon after the mishap.

13 people, eight in serious condition, were admitted in the Chhatarpur district hospital while the remaining are undergoing treatment at Nougaon civil hospital, police said.

The Chief Minister has announced an ex-gratia of Rs. one lakh each to the deceased and Rs. 50,000 for the injured.
Posted on 5:24 AM | Categories:

Madhya Pradesh road mishap: Seven killed, one injured as jeep collides with truck

Road mishap
Madhya Pradesh road mishap: Seven killed, one injured as jeep collides with truck 28 Jul 2013, 02:29 PM 16.7K1155 923 Road mishap Road mishap The truck carrying buffaloes hit the jeep coming from Agar in Shajapur near Susner on Saturday evening. Later, police, with the help of local people, extricated the passengers from the mangled jeep and sent them to a local community health center where seven of them succumbed to their injuries while one seriously injured person was referred to Ujjain for further treatment. The deceased were identified as - Kailash, Gopal, Gokul, Manohar, Shyam Lal, Bhagirath and Shiv Narayan Mali, (the age of the deceased was not yet clear) police said. The ill-fated passengers were from Gagorni and Karanpura villages of the district. The state government has announced an ex-gratia of Rs 50,000 each to the kin of the deceased and Rs 25,000 to a lone injured. The truck driver fled from the scene after the accident. Police have registered a case in this regard and further investigations are on. - See more at: http://post.jagran.com/madhya-pradesh-road-mishap-seven-killed-one-injured-as-jeep-collides-with-truck-1375001934#sthash.Ee4lZWRJ.dpuf
Posted on 5:23 AM | Categories:

21 dead, 41 rescued in MP bus accident in Bhopal





As many as 21 people were killed and 41 others were rescued when an overcrowded bus fell into Bagdi river in Madhya Pradesh's Dewas district, police said.
The accident took place on late Wednesday when a private bus, on its way to Indore via Chapra from Nemawar, with around 70-80 passengers on board skidded off the bridge and fell into the overflowing Bagdi river at Khategaon village.
Pawan Jain, inspector general of police, Ujjain range, said that some three to five persons were still missing.
21 dead, 41 rescued in MP bus accident As many as 21 people were killed and 41 others were rescued when an overcrowded bus fell into Bagdi river in Madhya Pradesh's Dewas district.
The driver of the bus, in which several women and students were travelling, survived the accident and was arrested on charges of criminal negligence.
Sita Bai, who was among the 41 people who managed to swim to safety with injuries and was undergoing treatment at Khategaon hospital, told police officers that the driver was largely responsible for the accident as he ignored the requests of passengers not to take the bus across the bridge overflowing with Bagdi river waters.
Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has announced a compensation of Rs 1 lakh each for the families of those killed. He has also asked the senior officials of Malwa region to personally monitor the rescue work.
Dozens of locals have joined in rescue work with divers and experts to save the missing passengers.
Posted on 5:22 AM | Categories:

UP minister’s 18-yr-old son dies in accident

Accident

UP minister’s 18-yr-old son dies in accident Express news service : Lucknow, Thu Dec 13 2012, 04:34 hrs Small Large Print Elder Care Companions www.epocheldercare.cCompanionship & Health Monitoring Service For Your Parents. Call Us! Ads by Google 0G +0SU0Reddit1 0 Related Couple fall from terrace, wife dies ICICI Lombard to pay Rs 36.98 Lakh as compensation UP minister’s 18-yr-old son killed in car accident Top Stories I don't have PM ambitions, want to serve Gujarat till 2017, says Narendra Modi Geetika Sharma suicide case: Former Haryana minister Gopal Kanda gets bail Left and SP stall RS over Vanzara issue, demand discussion on Modi's role Asaram often met women alone at night to 'heal' them, aide tells police BSF jawan on border duty kills two seniors, injures one in Assam's Dhubri district Accident Uttar Pradesh Horticulture and Food Processing Minister Raj Kishore Singh's 18-year-old son Upendra Kumar Singh alias Shubham died when he lost control over the SUV he was driving. The vehicle collided with the parapet of a flyover in Lucknow's Gomti Nagar area on Wednesday morning. The vehicle, a Tata Safari, which belonged to the minister, was badly smashed in the accident. Upendra, a student of class XII, died on the spot. The police said the incident occurred due to rash driving. They also suspect Upendra was talking on the cellphone while driving. It is not clear where he was going. Sub-Inspector Parush Ram Ojha of the Udyan police outpost, who was the first person to reach the spot on getting information from the police control room, said the body was flung out of the vehicle due to the impact. She sent Brij Kishore Singh, the minister's brother, to bring him back. She also called up Upendra and asked him to come back, but he did not. By the time Brij Kishore reached the spot, it was all over. As the news of the incident spread, Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and several ministers visited Singh's residence to console the family. None in the family was in a condition to talk about why Upendra left home and where he was going. He said the SUV, which was being driven at high speed, hit the parapet on both sides of the road several times and an electrical pole as it hurtled down the road before stopping in mangled pieces. Ojha said that, to begin with, there were two more persons in the vehicle, but Upendra reportedly asked them to get down and took over the steering. A short distance later, the tragedy ocurred. The two men informed the family which, in turn, informed the police control room, said Ojha. - See more at: http://www.indianexpress.com/news/up-minister-s-18yrold-son-dies-in-accident/1044635/#sthash.iMEjAACK.dpuf
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Youth dies in accident, mob on the rampage in lucknow


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A mob set ablaze 16 vehicles at a hot-mix plant and fought a pitched battle with the police after a truck crushed a man at the Gomti Nagar Extension on Tuesday. The police used lathis and rubber-bullets to disperse the mob which hurled brickbats.
Paresh Pandey, SP (Trans-Gomti), said over two dozen motorcycles found on the spot have been seized and these would help in identifying the rioters. District Magistrate Amit Ghosh has ordered an inquiry into the incident.
Tanveer Ahmad of Malesemau village, riding a motorcycle, was hit by a rashly driven truck of Awadh Enterprises — a private firm running the hot-mix plant at Gomti Nagar Extension's Sector 4. The LDA has owned the land for the last two years. While the youth suffered head injuries and died on the spot, the driver fled.
About 200 residents of Malesarmau, Juravankhera and Makdumpur villages gathered at the spot and set on fire 16 vehicles, including trucks, tractors, road-rollers and levellers. They also torched the houses of the labourers at the hot-mix plant. Shoib, in-charge of the plant, claimed the firm has suffered a loss of Rs 2 crore.
The LDA Joint Secretary, R K Mishra, said Awadh Enterprises was given a contract to supply hot mix for development works in Gomti Nagar Extension over two years ago. "The work was completed and it had recently been asked to wind up its set up. But it ignored the order," said Mishra.
Awadh Enterprises would be asked to provide compensation to the next of kin of the deceased, he added.
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Truck rams into slum, eight kids killed in lucknow


Truck rams into slum, eight kids killed In a tragic incident late Tuesday night, eight children were killed and over a dozen injured when a speeding truck overturned at Nagla Patwari near the bypass in Aligarh, 335 km from here, police said.

The incident happened when the truck, loaded with bricks, got stuck in a pothole. The driver lost control, the truck turned turtle and then hurtled into a roadside slum in the village.

The dead include five sisters, police said.

The deceased have been identified as Imran (five months), Akram (3), Kausar (7), Shabana (10), Khushboo (5), Zareena (8), Suhail (5) and Hazra (5).

Angry at the delay in arrival of cranes to begin rescue operations to pull out the children from under the truck, a mob went on a rampage and chased away senior district officials from the accident site.

Angry residents alleged that they had petitioned district authorities many times to get the road repaired, as they feared an accident that could cause loss of lives. They said their pleas fell on deaf ears.

The condition of the injured is stated to be serious, though out of danger, police officials said.

The truck driver and its cleaner were also among the injured.

Angry people blocked the road for many hours, protesting the laxity of authorities in repairing the road.
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