Ballia,

29 Dec (HS): A child and a government school teacher perished in separate

traffic accidents in Uttar Pradesh's Ballia district on Monday, police said. The

first accident happened late Sunday in the Sikandarpur region when Rajesh Kumar

Yadav (45) was riding his motorbike from Jalalipur Mod to the bus terminal in

Sikandarpur town. A speeding pickup truck crashed into his motorcycle from

behind, killing him on the spot, authorities said. Following the receipt of

information, a police squad arrived at the scene and transported the deceased

to the district hospital for postmortem assessment. The pickup truck involved

in the crash has been seized, police said. According to Sikandarpur Station

House Officer (SHO) Moolchand Chaurasia, a case has been filed against an

unnamed driver under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita in response to a complaint

submitted by Rajesh's father-in-law, Chandrabali Yadav.

Yadav

worked as an assistant teacher at a primary school in Pandah block and resided

in a leased house near the Kalpa shrine in Sikandarpur town, according to a

police official. Suraj, a one-and-a-half-year-old kid, died after being ran over

by a pickup vehicle on the Dalchhapra-Shrinagar link road in the Rewati

district on Sunday evening. The boy was playing outside his house when an

unidentified car mowed him down. According to authorities, villagers carried

the injured youngster to Rewati's community health facility, where physicians

confirmed him dead. The corpse has been submitted for post-mortem, and a case

has been filed against the unnamed driver in response to a complaint lodged by

the child's father, Mangru Nat, according to Rewati SHO Rajesh Bahadur Singh. He

stated that further inquiry is underway.

Hindusthan Samachar / Abhishek Awasthi