Five seriously injured in road accident at Arambagh
A head-on collision between a passenger bus and a Toto at the Kathali area on the Arambagh-Kamarpukur road early this morning left five people seriously injured.
A head-on collision between a passenger bus and a Toto at the Kathali area on the Arambagh-Kamarpukur road early this morning left five people seriously injured.
At least 12 people were killed and 9 others injured in two separate road accidents in Chitrakoot and Pilibhit in Uttar Pradesh during the past 24 hours.
An elderly man and a two-year-old girl were killed in two separate road accidents due to reckless driving. The incidents led to agitation and road blocks in the respective areas.
According to police data, road accidents witnessed a reduction of 14 per cent, fatalities by 27 per cent and injuries by 18 per cent.
According to the data of facial injuries reporting to the OPD of the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, at Himachal Pradesh Government Dental College and Hospital Shimla, the year 2022 witnessed 256 patients visiting the hospital out of which 64 (25 per cent) patients required major operations.
As many as 24 labourers were killed and at least 15 injured when the truck they were travelling in collided with another at around 3 am on Saturday in Uttar Pradesh’s Auraiya district.
According to the police, the incident happened in Mihauli area between 3.00 am and 3.30 am when a trailer truck coming from Rajasthan, carrying around 50 labourers, collided with a DCM van which was coming from Delhi.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has announced Rs 2 Lakh ex gratia to next of the kin of the each deceased and a compensation of Rs 50,000 each to injured in the Muzaffarnagar accident.
Gilgit-Baltistan government spokesman Faizullah Faraq said that the victims included two children.
Meanwhile, forensic analysis will be required to identify not just the victim bodies, but also the number of the dead in the horrific bus accident.
