Lucknow: In a tragic incident ten people, including nine members of a family, were killed on Sunday when the car they were travelling in fell into a canal in Mathura road accident, police said.
The accident took place around 4.30am on the Mathura-Jajampatti road near Mogarra village of Mathura, superintendent of police (rural) Aditya Shukla said. All the bodies have been recovered.
The dead include two children. The nine relatives were from Rajeev Colony in Subhash Nagar of Bareilly and were on their way to offer prayers at Mehendipur Balaji temple in Dausa district of Rajasthan.
The driver of the car, en route from from Bharatpur, was also killed in the accident, a police official told media.
According to police official “A rescue team has been deployed at the site but the locals are refusing to send the bodies for post-mortem as they want senior officials to come and assure that a small bridge over the duct would be widened as there have been many accidents in the past.”
The nine relatives were identified as Mahesh Sharma, Deepika Sharma, Poonam Sharma, Ritwik Sharma, Hardik Sharma, Rohan, Khusboo, Himanshi and Surabhi. They were identified from the Aadhaar cards that they carried.
Angry locals protested, seeking repair of a small bridge in the area and the ill-maintained road. Some said similar accidents have taken place in the past too as the road was narrow. A crane was called in pull out the car from the water.
