Jaunpur (UP), May 31: Five persons were today killed and 50 others injured when several bogies of the Howrah-Dehradun Doon Express derailed near Mahrawa Station here.
The incident took place this afternoon, Superintendent of Police, Jaunpur, Akash Kulhari told PTI.
"Five persons have been killed and 50 injured in the accident", he said.
Relief and rescue teams have been rushed to the spot from Varanasi and Lucknow
New Delhi, May 9: A 23-year-old woman allegedly committed suicide at the AIIMS here after her mother died of cancer at the hospital, police said on Saturday.
She was reported missing after her mother passed away on Wednesday and her body was found near the new private ward block of the hospital on Saturday, they said, adding that she fell to her death from a building.
"Her mother was a cancer patient. She was being treated at the hospital and had died during treatment on Wednesday," Deputy Commissioner of Police (South) Atul Kumar Thakur said.
Her father was busy in the formalities when she left the area. She was reported missing since Wednesday. The family hails from Moradabad district of Uttar Pradesh, a senior police officer said.
Hospital staff noticed the body and informed the police. The block was closed due to which nobody found out about it earlier, police said.
Police said she had called her friends and told them that she was going to kill herself. The body has been recovered and an inquest proceeding is underway.
Lucknow, May 1: Six members of a family were allegedly hacked to death by another family member over a property dispute in Gudauli village in the Banthra area on the outskirts of the city on Thursday, police said.
The accused, Ajay Singh (26), went to the local police station after committing the crime and surrendered, they added.
Singh allegedly had a heated argument with the family members over a property and attacked them with a sharp-edged weapon, the police said.
The accused allegedly killed his mother, father, elder brother, his wife and two children -- a son and a daughter -- they added.
The victims were identified as Amar (60), Ramsakhi (55), Arun (40), Ramdulari (35), Saurabh (7) and Sarika (2).
When asked, Commissioner of Police Sujeet Pandey said six members of a family were killed and the accused surrendered before the police.
Bareilly (UP), May 19: Samajwadi leader Chhotelal Diwakar and his son, Sunil Diwakar, were shot dead in broad daylight in Sambhal district of Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday. The entire incident was caught on camera.
The murder was apparently a fallout of a dispute over laying of a road under MGNREGA.
Chhotelal Diwakar had contested the 2017 assembly elections on a Samajwadi Party ticket.
Superintendent of Police, (SP), Sambhal, Yamuna Prasad, said, "Some work was being carried out under MGNREGA due to which some dispute happened. Two people have been shot dead. We will reach the spot of the incident to find more details."
According to his family members, Diwakar and his son had gone for a walk in the fields when the assailants came on a motorbike and after a brief altercation, shot them dead. They fled on foot, leaving their motorbike behind.
A large number of SP workers reached the village soon after the news of the double murder spread.
SP Yamuna Prasad who reached the spot that falls under Behjoi police station, soon after the murders, said that a manhunt has been launched for the assailants. He said that further investigations were underway and the bodies have been sent for post mortem.
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