7 DROWN AS VEHICLE FALLS INTO BIST DOAB CANAL
Hoshiarpur June 30
Seven persons of Authori village were drowned, three feared washed away, including an NRI girl, when the vehicle they were travelling by fell into the Bist Doab canal near Pinjora village on the Phagwara-Guna Chaur road this afternoon.
Two members of the family escaped unhurt. Two twin brothers also died in the accident. Twelve persons of Authori village were accompanying their Norwegian relative in vehicles to their relative in Hoshiarpur and travelling along the Bist Doab canal when the accident took place.
According to report, Tirath Ram (41), his wife Daljit Kaur, daughter Sapna, Joginder Pal Singh (36), his wife Balbir Kaur, daughter Tamanna and twin sons Harpreet and Hitesh, Neelam, her daughter Pooja and son Rohit were travelling in Tavera (PB-09-5747) along with Norway-based niece Ramandeep Kaur. Joginder was driving the vehicle from Authori village to Hoshiarpur when he lost control of the vehicle and other vehicles too fell into the canal along with 11 persons.
According to the police, bodies of Balbir, Tamanna, Hitesh, Tirath, Daljit, Sapna and Ramandeep were removed from the canal, while Harpreet, Pooja and Rohit are still missing. The vehicle driver and his sister Neelam were saved. Eyewitnesses said hearing the noise, labourers widening the road near the spot raised the alarm and a crane was pressed into service which pulled out the vehicle from the canal along with bodies and survivors. As the news spread, passersby and villagers recovered some other bodies. However, Sapna, Pooja and Rohit were missing till the filing of report.
Deputy Commissioner, Hoshiarpur, Megh Raj, along with certain senior civil and police officers, visited the spot. The bodies were sent to Satluj Hospital, Kot Fatuhi. The DC said divers had been called to pull the bodies out. The bodies have been sent to the civil hospital, Nawanshahr, for a post-mortem examination. The survivors, still in shock, were referred to a private hospital in Phagwara.
Hoshiarpur June 30
Seven persons of Authori village were drowned, three feared washed away, including an NRI girl, when the vehicle they were travelling by fell into the Bist Doab canal near Pinjora village on the Phagwara-Guna Chaur road this afternoon.
Two members of the family escaped unhurt. Two twin brothers also died in the accident. Twelve persons of Authori village were accompanying their Norwegian relative in vehicles to their relative in Hoshiarpur and travelling along the Bist Doab canal when the accident took place.
According to report, Tirath Ram (41), his wife Daljit Kaur, daughter Sapna, Joginder Pal Singh (36), his wife Balbir Kaur, daughter Tamanna and twin sons Harpreet and Hitesh, Neelam, her daughter Pooja and son Rohit were travelling in Tavera (PB-09-5747) along with Norway-based niece Ramandeep Kaur. Joginder was driving the vehicle from Authori village to Hoshiarpur when he lost control of the vehicle and other vehicles too fell into the canal along with 11 persons.
According to the police, bodies of Balbir, Tamanna, Hitesh, Tirath, Daljit, Sapna and Ramandeep were removed from the canal, while Harpreet, Pooja and Rohit are still missing. The vehicle driver and his sister Neelam were saved. Eyewitnesses said hearing the noise, labourers widening the road near the spot raised the alarm and a crane was pressed into service which pulled out the vehicle from the canal along with bodies and survivors. As the news spread, passersby and villagers recovered some other bodies. However, Sapna, Pooja and Rohit were missing till the filing of report.
Deputy Commissioner, Hoshiarpur, Megh Raj, along with certain senior civil and police officers, visited the spot. The bodies were sent to Satluj Hospital, Kot Fatuhi. The DC said divers had been called to pull the bodies out. The bodies have been sent to the civil hospital, Nawanshahr, for a post-mortem examination. The survivors, still in shock, were referred to a private hospital in Phagwara.
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