6 killed, 11 injured in road accident in UP’s Jaunpur

Jaunpur, February 9

Six people were killed and 11 others injured in a two-vehicle crash on the Varanasi-Jaunpur highway in Jalalpur area of Uttar Pradesh’s Jaunpur district on Tuesday, police said.

All 17 people were travelling in a jeep after attending a cremation in Varanasi, they said.

The injured had been admitted to a local hospital, where the condition of three is said to be serious, police said.

Those killed were identified as Amar Bahadur Yadav (58), Ram Singar Yadav (38), Munnilal (38), Indrajit Yadav (48), Kamala Prasad Yadav (60) and Ramkumar (65), they said.

Additional Superintendent of Police (City) Sanjay Kumar said 112-year-old Dhanadei Devi, a resident of Jalalpur village in Sarai Khwaja area, had died and her son-in-law Lakshmi Shankar Yadav went to Manikarnika Ghat in Varanasi along with 17 people from his village to cremate her.

Local police reached the spot after getting information about the accident and were joined in by rescue personnel.

The truck driver escaped from the scene after the accident, the ASP said. PTI