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The incidental occurred astatine 10 p.m. astatine Natraj Chowk, wherever a speeding motortruck was attempting to determination onto the main roadworthy from an underpass. (Representational Image)
Three people, including a salient person of the Uttarakhand statehood movement, were killed successful a large roadworthy mishap involving aggregate vehicles successful Rishikesh Sunday night. This comes weeks aft the territory was shaken by visuals from different roadworthy mishap successful Dehradun.
The incidental occurred astatine 10 p.m. astatine Natraj Chowk, wherever a speeding motortruck was attempting to determination onto the main roadworthy from an underpass. The motortruck allegedly mislaid power and collided with 5 vehicles, including 71-year-old UKD person Trivendra Singh Pawar’s car. The mishap near respective people, including pedestrians, wounded.
The motortruck driver, identified arsenic Vijay Kumar, a nonmigratory of Rumsi colony successful Rudraprayag district, was arrested, and his motortruck seized connected charges of rash driving and causing decease by negligence.
Pawar was a well-known Uttarakhand statehood agitator whose outfit, the Uttarakhand Kranti Dal (UKD), was among those that spearheaded the statehood movement. He was getting into his car aft attending a wedding reception astatine Forest View Hotel adjacent Natraj Chowk erstwhile the mishap occurred. He was yet taken to AIIMS Rishikesh but was declared dead.
The different 2 deceased person been identified arsenic Gurjeet Singh, 36, from Rishikesh, and Jatin, 23, of Delhi. While Gurjeet died the aforesaid night, Jatin succumbed to his wounds Monday morning. According to the police, the country was unusually crowded owed to a wedding ceremony, which had led to postulation congestion.
“Efforts to wide the resulting postulation jam began instantly aft the constabulary arrived astatine the scene,” Dehradun Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Ajai Singh said.
The fig of injured is yet to beryllium confirmed and further probe into the lawsuit is underway.
This comes weeks aft different large mishap reignited concerns implicit roadworthy information successful the region, with calls for stricter enforcement of postulation regulations. On November 12, six students died and 1 was injured aft their SUV collided with a instrumentality motortruck astatine precocious velocity successful Dehradun.
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