According to the police, the incident occurred near the Bhadaura town at around 2.30 am.
With the chanting of "Bharat Mata ki Jai" and a sea of humanity in witness, Kerala on Friday gave a heroic farewell to Kochi native N Ramachandran, who was killed in the terror attack at Baisaran Valley, Pahalgam, in South Kashmir on Tuesday.
Six members of a wedding procession were killed on the spot when their car collided with a roadside tree at Bhujuli intersection of this Uttar Pradesh district. Two people were critically injured in the accident.
In a tragic incident, a Chhattisgarh Armed Forces (CAF) constable, Manoj Pujari, was killed in an improvised explosive device (IED) blast triggered by Maoist insurgents in the dense forests of Bijapur district.
The police have arrested Purendra Kaushik, a local BJP functionary, on charges of murder and attempt to murder. Kaushik had lost to Champai in last year's sarpanch election, a defeat that sources say had left him embittered.
The identity of the deceased is yet to be ascertained, and the death toll may go up as there were a number of serious patients who were admitted to the hospital, the SP added.
A five-year-old survivor of the highway mishap was rushed to the SMS Hospital in serious condition.
The pilots were reported safe but the technician, Pabbala Anil, who sustained critical injuries in the incident, succumbed to the wounds.
Officers were first called to the Northside Hospital Medical in Midtown Atlanta at 12:08 p.m. ET Wednesday, Schierbaum said.
According to police, the incident occurred in Sardarpur area of Dhar district on Monday night.
