Handloom market shut as trader, 6 kin die in road accident

MEERUT: Meerut’s busiest handloom market was closed on Monday after a local trader and his six family members were burnt alive in a road accident in Rajasthan’s Sikar district on Sunday.

President of Handloom Association (Meerut), Ankush Goel, said this gesture was to express condolences to the victims’ family.

The victims were residents of Meerut’s Brahmpuri region. The family was heading to a temple in Rajasthan when their car struck a cotton-laden truck from behind and caught fire. All seven passengers in the car were charred to death on the spot.

The dead were identified as Neelam Goyal (55), her son Ashutosh Goyal (32), Manju Bindal (58), her son Hardik Bindal (37) and his wife Swati Bindal (32) and their daughters Diksha (7) and Swati (4). Ashutosh, a trader in the market, is survived by a father, wife, and five-year-old son.

Goel said, “Over 500 shops were closed on Monday to express our grief. Ashutosh Goyal’s father Mukesh Goyal said they would immerse their ashes in Ganga river in Garh Mukteshwar, instead of bringing them home. The condition of bodies was such that no one was able to identify them.”


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