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Six farmers were killed and a person injured in a traffic accident in Uttar Pradesh’s Etawah district on Tuesday night, the news agency ANI reported.
The farmers had gone to sell vegetables in the market and return home when the mini truck they were travelling in was hit by another truck at high speed in the Friends Colony area of Etawah.
While five persons died on the spot, one succumbed to injuries in the hospital. The injured person was admitted to Saifai Medical College, SP City R Singh told ANI.
SSP Etawah, Akash Tomar, arrived at the site of the accident at the reception of the information, said an investigation is into the incident, according to IANS.
“The bodies are being sent for post mortem and further investigations are on,” the SSP said.
Uttar Pradesh, the chief minister of Yogi Adityanath has expressed his sorrow over the incident. He announced a compensation of Rs 2 lakh each for the kin of dead and rs 50,000 for the injured person, reports ANI.
There has been a spate of traffic accidents across the country, mainly involving migrant workers, in the last few weeks .
Twenty-two people died in separate traffic accidents in the five states on Tuesday. Nine people were killed in Bihar, four in Maharashtra, six in two road accidents in Uttar Pradesh, one in Jharkhand and two in as many incidents in Odisha, according to state officials.
Twenty-four migrant workers were killed and 36 were injured in the early hours of the morning of 16 May, when a trailer truck that was carrying sacks of lime, together with 43 people, struck the rear of a stationary truck, with many other migrant workers sitting in it on the national road TO Auraiya.
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