Woman, 4-yr-old daughter killed
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The accident occurred near Jainapur in the Rajepur police station area on Saturday night.
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Farrukhabad: A 25-year-old woman and her four-year-old daughter were killed, while three others were injured, when a pickup vehicle collided with a dumper on the Etawah-Bareilly highway in Uttar Pradesh’s Farrukhabad district, police said on Sunday.
The accident occurred near Jainapur in the Rajepur police station area on Saturday night.
According to police, Vimlesh, a resident of Panchal Ghat, was returning to Farrukhabad with his wife Pooja and their daughter when their pickup collided with the dumper.
Five people, including three members of Vimlesh’s family, were injured in the accident. They were taken to the Rajepur Community Health Centre, where doctor Himanshu Rajput declared Pooja and her daughter dead.
Vimlesh is undergoing treatment at the community health centre, while pickup driver Sharif and an unidentified man, aged around 55, were referred to Lohia Hospital in view of their critical condition.
Sharif was trapped inside the pickup following the collision. Police personnel rescued him after cutting a window with a grinder, taking about 10 minutes.
