4 of marriage party killed, 3 injured in Banda road crash

Kanpur: Four members of a marriage party were killed while three others suffered serious injuries when the SUV they were traveling in crashed into a tree on the roadside on the national highway in Banda district on the intervening night of Sunday and Monday.Driver Rajeev alias Raju Tiwari (48), Devraj Dwivedi (65), Lakshmi Dwivedi (70) and Kailashi, who were travelling in the SUV were killed.Two of the injured have been referred to Kanpur, while one is undergoing treatment at the Banda district hospital.The ‘baraat’ (marriage procession) of Ankit Singh, son of Raju Singh, resident of Godhani village of Tindwari police station area, had gone to Kurhun village of Badausa police station area on Sunday. After ‘Jaimal’ rituals, seven ‘baratis’ (members of groom side) left for Godhani at 2am. “The accident took place at Ansh Bunglan Purwa in Turra village under the limits of Badausa police station when the driver lost control on the vehicle and it dashed into a tree,” said additional superintendent of police Lakshmi Niwas Mishra.On being informed by passersby, police reached the spot and got the injured admitted to the district hospital. The injured have been identified as Mohit (22), Shivshankar (30) and Devi Prasad (36), said the official and added, “The bodies of the deceased have been sent for postmortem.”