10 killed in Sirmaur road mishaps

Tribune News Service

Solan, April 29

Ten persons were killed in four separate road accidents in different areas of Sirmaur district in the last 24 hours.

Four persons were killed when the Bolero vehicle (HP-62-1387) they were travelling in fell into a 200-foot-deep gorge near Giankot on the Giankot-Basadhar link road around 9 pm last evening. The accident site is on the border of Shimla and Sirmaur districts and the victims were rushed to a nearby hospital at Chopal.

Rajgarh DSP Yogesh Rolta said they had received the information about this accident late in the evening and they rushed to the spot which was more than two hours away. Since the lone survivor, Puneet Kumar, was not in a condition to give statement as yet the cause of the accident could not be ascertained.

He said those killed had been identified as Ramesh (55), Virender (38), Manoj (28) and Gopal (53). All are residents of Chopal subdivision in Shimla district.

In another accident, three persons were killed when the Alto car they were travelling in rolled down into a deep gorge in the Haripurdhar area near Bayong on the Korog-Kulag road this morning.

The deceased have been identified as Kapil Dev, the vehicle driver, and Rajesh Kumar. Another person, Baldev Singh, who was seriously injured, was referred to the Nahan medical college. He succumbed to his injuries later in the day.

In the third incident, a woman, Babli Devi, was killed when she was trying to operate a fan with the help of a tractor and her dupatta got entangled in the fan in Rampurghat area of Paonta Sahib this morning. She was trying to clean the wheat when the accident took place. She sustained grievous head injuries and was declared brought dead by the doctors at the local hospital.

In the fourth case, a youth, Amit Kumar, and a woman, Vaishali, were killed when they were overrun by a speeding tractor in Moginand area of Kala Amb last night. The incident happened when they came out of a wedding hall after taking dinner and were preparing to go home. The tractor driver managed to flee the spot.

Two killed, four hurt as car rolls down gorge

Shimla: Two persons were killed on the spot and four others — a woman and three children — seriously injured when the Maruti Suzuki Ritz car (MP-06 CA-1323) they were travelling in rolled down into a 200-m gorge near Devidhar on the Shimla-Mandi road.  Sources said the driver lost control of the vehicle while negotiating a curve, resulting in the accident. Six persons were travelling in the car. The deceased included the car driver, Mirja Tosif, and Mirja Janul, both from Madhya Pradesh.  The injured have been identified as Praveen (28), Mirja Sohib Baig (16), Mirja Sohil (13) and Mirja Noman (5). They were rushed to the IGMC, Shimla, where they were under treatment. The sources said the bodies had been handed over to the family after a postmortem. Investigation was under way, they added.