Narora, 16 October 2026: An 'Eeco' van carrying devotees from Kasaganj to visit the 'Sarvamangala Maa Bella Bhavani Siddhapeetha' located at Belon near Narora lost control and crashed into a tree on the side of the road. In this accident, five people including a one year old girl, her father and her grandfather died, while three other persons were seriously injured. Police have sent the dead bodies for postmortem.
According to eyewitnesses, at around 2:00 pm on Friday, a driver lost control of a speeding 'Eeco' van on the Delhi-Badayao road and the van crashed into a tree on the side of the road. There was a loud sound like an explosion and the front part of the van was completely crushed against a tree, due to which the people inside were trapped inside.
Hearing the incident, people and villagers passing by immediately ran to the spot and informed the Narora police. With the help of the villagers, the police, after a lot of trouble, took out the injured and also brought out the dead bodies.
Five people died on the spot
Ramshankar's son Ramdin (50), a resident of Dehli Buzurg village in Sidhpura area of Kasganj district, his son Lokendra (28), his one-year-old granddaughter Pragati (Lokendra's daughter), Babita (35, wife of Praveen Kumar) and Eeco van driver Shivshankar Mishra (55) – all of them died on the spot.
The injured were referred to a higher center.
Lalita Anika and four-year-old Prateek, who were traveling in the car, were seriously injured in this accident. He has been referred from Dubai Community Health Center (CHC) to a higher medical institution in Aligarh for treatment. The Station House Officer said that the police have completed the Panchnama process of the dead bodies and have sent them for postmortem.
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