Unnao. Three police personnel lost their lives in a painful accident in Safipur Kotwali area late on Friday evening. In an attempt to avoid an uncontrolled tanker coming from the front on Unnao Hardoi road, the UP Dial 112 police vehicle entered Khanti and then the tanker overturned on it. Three police personnel, including two female constables in the police vehicle, were buried, while one constable survived by jumping out of the window. The police force, who arrived on the information, hurriedly called cranes and bulldozers, removed the tanker, pulled out the three police personnel buried there and sent them to the hospital. All the three police personnel died before treatment could begin at the hospital. After the accident, the Hardoi Unnao road was blocked and the traffic was disrupted for a long time.
Dial 112’s PRV 2908 team was going from Salhenagar Karaundi Point to SR Pump Point at around 8:30 on Friday night. A speeding tanker coming from Hardoi’s side near Jatpurwa Wazirganj became uncontrolled. In order to avoid him, the driver of the PRV team turned the vehicle towards the ravine, meanwhile an uncontrolled tanker came and overturned on him. Due to this, female constable Rita Kushwaha, wife Prabhakant Kushwaha, resident of police vehicle, Tiptiya Rasulabad, Kanpur countryside, Shashikala Yadav resident of village Karha police station Mohdabad district Mau, driver Krishnanendra resident of Jainpur police station Akbarpur district Kanpur countryside got buried inside the car. While constable Anand Singh resident of Bhagauli Siwan Bihar saved his life by jumping from the window.
When passersby informed the police about the accident, there was panic. The police force of Safipur Kotwali immediately reached the spot and started the rescue work. After about an hour of effort with crane and bulldozer, the tanker was removed and the three constables buried inside the police vehicle were taken out and sent to the district hospital. All three died in the hospital shortly after the start of treatment. SP Dinesh Tripathi, SDM, CO also reached the spot.
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