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
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.
Farukkhabad, Jan 14: In a shocking incident, a new-born baby was mauled to death by a dog inside the operation theatre (OT) of a private hospital in Farukkhabad on Monday.
Family members of the baby boy said that they noticed the hospital staff shooing a dog away from inside the operation theatre and soon after, they were told the baby boy, born just two hours ago, was dead.
The family members said that they found the baby's body on the floor and it had deep gashes around the neck and other parts of the body.
District magistrate Manvendra Singh has ordered an FIR and the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Chandra Shekhar said the hospital has been sealed and an inquiry ordered into the incident.
Sources said that the hospital where the incident took place was unregistered and was being run adjacent to a government hospital.
According to the FIR lodged with Sadar Kotwali police, the infant's father Ravi Kumar said he had admitted his wife Kanchan in the hospital on Monday and she was taken for a C-section to the operation theatre.
After the delivery, Kanchan was shifted to the ward but the family was told that the baby would be shifted later.
An hour later, the family was informed that the baby had died.
The family members then saw the hospital staff trying to chase a dog out of the operation theatre.
The family members forced their way into the operation theatre and found the infant lying on the floor with several injuries on the neck.
The police said that the baby's body has been preserved for examination and post mortem.
The FIR has been registered against Dr Mohit Gupta, and some of the staff members who were present during the delivery.
The hospital owner, Vijay Patel, however, feigned complete ignorance about the incident and said that he had been told that the baby was born dead.
Hyderabad, Mar 28: Seven labourers from Karnataka were killed and four injured when the van in which they were travelling was hit by a truck near Pedda Golconda on the outskirts of the city late on Friday night, police said.
The deceased included two children. Of the 31 workers in the van, five died on the spot and two while undergoing treatment at a hospital, Assistant Commissioner of Traffic Vishwa Prasad said.
Four others were hospitalised and the condition of one of them is critical, he said, adding the other workers in the van escaped with minor injuries.
The workers were on their way back to their home town Raichur in Karnataka as the road project they were working in at Suryapet here was stalled due to the lockdown, Prasad said.
He said initital investigations revealed that the mango laden truck, which was on its way to Gujarat, was overspeeding.
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