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3 family members, including toddlers, die after bike collides with tractor trolley in UP’s Bulandshahr

The tractor-trolley driver did not apply brakes but accelerated the truck, crushing all three.

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Bulandshahr Road Accident

A woman and her two toddlers were killed in a road accident in the Gulavathi area of Uttar Pradesh’s Bulandshahr on Friday late evening. The tragic accident happened after a bike collided with a tractor-trolley in Asifabad Chandrapura village in the Baral Police Station area. After the accident, the accused fled the spot.

According to the reports, the woman was riding on a bike with her two toddlers when the tractor trolley, laden with paddy, rammed into a bike and crushed three of them. The deceased are identified as 26-year-old Afroz, 2-year-old Alia, and 1-year-old Aaris.

Afroz’s husband, Akbar, was riding a bike. He told the police officer that when he reached Mohali’s turn near Chandpura Madrasa village in the Kotwali area, a tractor-trolley full of paddy was coming from the front. He said he stopped his bike because of the narrow road, but the tractor-trolley was approaching at an uncontrollable speed and hit his bike, due to which Afroz and their children, who were sitting on her lap, fell to the ground.

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The tractor-trolley driver did not apply brakes but accelerated the truck, crushing all three. As soon as the local people reached the spot after the accident, the driver fled, leaving the tractor-trolley. Akbar’s wife and children died on the spot.

Upon receiving the information, the local police reached the accident spot immediately and took their body’s into possession. The police have sent their body for post-mortem.

Police have registered a case against the driver and taken his tractor-trolley into possession. The police are on the lookout for the accused. An investigation is underway.

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Railway Board recommends CBI investigation into Odisha train accident, says Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw

Earlier in the day the Minister speaking to the reporters at the Crash site in Balasore informed that the root cause behind the accident has been identified and will soon be revealed.

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Ashwini Vaishnaw

Union Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Sunday, has informed about the Railway Board’s recommendation of Central Bureau of Investigation(CBI) probe into the tragic train accident in Odisha on June 2 claiming the lives of almost 300 people and more the 1000 injured.

Vaishnaw while speaking to the media at Bhubaneswar said, taking the administrative information into consideration, the Railway Board has been recommending the entire case to CBI for the probe into the matter.

Earlier in the day the Minister speaking to the reporters at the Crash site in Balasore informed that the root cause behind the accident has been identified and will soon be revealed.

Vaishnaw also had said that the enquiry into the matter has been completed by the Railway Commissioner and the report will be submitted soon.

Vaishnaw added that all the dead bodies were recovered from the crash site along with the completion of the rescue operations, the restoration work and the clearance of the wreckage is underway and will be completed by Wednesday morning to bring back a normalcy in the operation of trains.

On Friday evening, near the Bahanaga Railway station in Balasore district of Odisha, in a heart-wrenching turn of events, three trains collided that included two superfast express trains and one stationery train.

In the dreadful mishap, nearly 300 people were killed and more than 1000 people travelling in the train were injured.

Heart-breaking visuals of corpses being transported in trucks and tractors from the accident spot also surfaced.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, Railway Minister Vaishnaw along other senior officials of the state and Central government visited ground-zero to take stock of the situation and the rescue operations.

The Centre and the state government have also announced compensation worth Rs 10 lakh and Rs 5 lakh respectively to the deceased’s family members.

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Odisha train accident: Police issues warning for spreading false statement provoking communal disturbance to social media users

Some pictures have been viral, showing a white building structure next to the railway track where the dreadful tragedy took place. Reports said, the structure in the viral image is  the Bahanaga ISKCON temple and not a mosque.

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Odisha train accident

In the wake of the horrific train accident in Balasore on Friday evening, Odisha Police today has appealed to social media users to not to circulate false statements regarding the train accident stating that many social media handles are giving communal colour to the tragic train accident, which is highly unfortunate.

Since the horrific accident took place, internet is flooded with crash site images and visuals along with information related to it. While, some information shared by the users appear to be true, some seem spreading news and some are appearing to be communally provoking, which is after the said decision has been taken by the Odisha Police.

On different social media platforms, people are sharing images of the spot where the train collided, claiming a white structure near the spot is a mosque alleging that the Muslim community is responsible for the accident.

Some pictures have been viral, showing a white building structure next to the railway track where the dreadful tragedy took place. Reports said, the structure in the viral image is  the Bahanaga ISKCON temple and not a mosque.

The Odisha Police said the investigation to find out the cause of the accident is being done by the GRP Odisha and appealed to prevent from circulating false and ill-motivated posts.

It has also warned of a legal action against those trying to create a communal dis-balance by spreading rumors.

Meanwhile, the authorities of the ISKCON temple in Bahanaga have accepted that the train accident happened on the tracks is near the temple and also confirmed that the ISKCON temple is visible close to the crash site.

In a shocking turn of events, a train accident on June 2 near Bahanaga railway station in Balasore district of Odisha killed nearly 300 people and more than 1000 inured.

Union Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw today informed, all the dead bodies have been recovered and the injured have been rescued from the site and the restoration work is currently underway, expected to be end by Wednesday.

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2 year-old girl in Gujarat declared dead after being rescued from inside a bore well

According to Jamnagar Taluka Development Officer N A Sarvaiya, the rescue effort that Army and NDRF soldiers lasted all night.

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A 2-year old girl child declared dead after was rescued from a bore well, into which she fell and was stuck for more than 21 hours in Gujarat’s Jamnagar district.

On Saturday, at around 9:30 am, Roshni, fell down inside a bore well, as soon as the local administration received  information about the incident, around 11 am, it launched a rescue operation involving the  fire department personnel.

The girl was stuck around 25-30 feet deep in the bore well. The incident took place in Tamachan hamlet, near the border of Jamwantli in Jamnagar tehsil

The rescue operation lasted for 21 hours and Roshni was with the assistance of the NDRF at about 5:45 am on Sunday.

She was immediately rushed to the GG Hospital in the city, where doctors after examination declared her dead. Roshni’s body has been sent for post-mortem, after the examination, the child’s body will be returned to her parents.

Roshni was the daughter of a labour working in the farm, where she got trapped inside the bore well. Roshni’s family is from Devpura in Madhya Pradesh.

According to Jamnagar Taluka Development Officer N A Sarvaiya, the rescue effort that Army and NDRF soldiers lasted all night.

A private bore well robot technology was also used in the rescue operation to fill the borewell with water.

Similar cases have been reported in the past, earlier in June last year, a two-year-old child fell into a bore well at a farm, the child was fortunately rescued with the efforts of multiple teams of disaster management soldiers, fire department officials, police and author authorities of the administration.

In 2010, the Supreme Court had issued guidelines to set up barbed wire fencing around the tube wells during construction, using steel plate covers fixed with bolts over the well assembly and filling up bore wells from the bottom to the ground level, to prevent any such incidents.

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