Uttar Pradesh: Five killed, including a couple, as truck hits motorcycles in Pilibhit

In a tragic incident, as many as 5 folks, together with a married couple, misplaced their lives after a dashing truck hit their bikes in Uttar Pradesh’s Pilibhit on Thursday. Station Home Officer of Jahanabad Police station in Pilibhit district Mukesh Kumar Shukla stated the accident happened on the Haridwar Nationwide Freeway when Uwaish (32) and his spouse Sakra Begum (30) had been on their approach to meet a relative in a close-by village on the event of Eid.

Victims died on spot

Three males — Akib (21), Sahib (25) and Arbaz (26) — had been additionally going to participate in an Eid perform. A dashing truck hit the 2 bikes with such depth that every one the riders flung a number of toes away from the scene and their bikes had been left utterly broken, police stated. All of the 5 victims died on the spot, the SHO stated.

The incident led to main site visitors congestion on the freeway after the households of the victims and plenty of native folks gathered there. The administration was in a position to clear up the roads after the police assured the households of swift motion within the matter. 

Truck driver at massive

He added that efforts are on to establish and nab the truck driver, who fled the spot after the incident. The our bodies have been despatched for a postmortem. Nevertheless, an FIR is but to be lodged into the matter.

(With PTI inputs)

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