Chitrakoot: Four people died and 12 others were injured early on Monday, November 9, when a tractor-trolley carrying devotees returning from the Deepdan Mela overturned on the Jhansi-Mirzapur National Highway near Ramnagar village in Uttar Pradesh's Chitrakoot district, district officials said.

Source: ANI via Devdiscourse

The crash took place at around 2.30 am under the Raipura police station area. According to Chitrakoot District Magistrate Pulkit Garg, the hook connecting the trolley to the tractor failed and came undone, causing the two to separate; the trolley veered off the side of the road and overturned, and four people died on the spot.

Five people were seriously injured and were referred by ambulance to a hospital in Prayagraj, while seven sustained minor injuries, the District Magistrate said. The dead were first taken to the Community Health Centre in Ramnagar and the bodies were later sent to the district headquarters for post-mortem examinations.

Source: The Daily Jagran

The tractor-trolley was registered in Madhya Pradesh. Most of the passengers were from Prayagraj and Rewa who had come to Chitrakoot for the Diwali fair and the Deepdan Mela and were on their way back to their homes, Garg told reporters. Jagran reported that the group included residents of Uncha village in Prayagraj district and their relatives from Rewa district in Madhya Pradesh, and that a child was among the four who died.

Further details were awaited from the district administration. The accident was one of several fatal road crashes reported across Uttar Pradesh over the Diwali weekend.