4 women killed in road accident at Yamuna expressway

Agra : In yet another gruesome road accident, four women of a family were killed, when the car in which they were traveling lost its control and rammed into the divider after its tyre burst, supposedly due to over- speeding.

The incident happened near Surir of Mathura. In the accident four men were too injured, who were taken to district hospital of Mathura.

Deceased were identified as Anamika (42), Vipasha (12), Nikita (15) and Sonia (20), while the injured were Rupendar Dutta, N K Pal, Digvijay and Shambhu Paswan.

The victims were travelling in a hired Toyota Qualis from New Delhi, to visit Agra’s Taj Mahal on Sunday.

As per police, the car was been driven by Shambhu Paswan resident of Nicholson road, while rest others hailed from Laxminagar of New Delhi. The family of victims owned a restaurant in Adelaide of Australia.

Speaking with TOI, station in-charge of Surir, Narendar Singh said, “The incident took place at around 3:30 pm at milestone number 79, when the car’s tyre burst off. The impact of the collision of car with divider was such that, all the deceased people’s bodies were found lying in pool of blood nearly five to seven meters away from mangled car.”

“We have sent the bodies for post mortem, while critically injured men are been treated at district hospital,” he added.