Six Die After Cars Plunge Into Canals in Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh

Overview

• In Kanpur Dehat, a Swift veered into the Ramganga canal near Hari Niwada, killing Rakesh Srivastava, his brother Radhesh, and their driver Kariya alias Munnu, while Rakesh’s son Abhishek was critically injured and hospitalized.
• Kanpur Dehat police said the vehicle lost control due to overspeeding as the family returned from a function.
• A Block Education Officer driving behind the car alerted locals, who broke the rear window to pull occupants out; three were declared dead at the Community Health Centre in Rasoolabad and the car was later retrieved by crane.
• Around midnight on the Itarsi-Pathrota Road in Narmadapuram, a speeding car crashed through a bridge railing into the Pathrota canal, killing Lucky Patel, Shivam Tiwari, and Abhay alias Abhi Chauhan; their bodies and the vehicle were recovered.
• Itarsi SDOP Virendra Kumar Mishra said post-mortems are underway and a probe is examining the sequence of events, with eyewitnesses reporting the vehicle locked and sank before escape was possible.