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6 die including 4 sisters when a car crushed them in Firozabad

Firozabad, Oct 26 (UNI) An uncontrolled car crushed 17 people in which 6 people including 4 sisters and driver of the car were killed when they were celebrating Tesu Jhanjhi ceremony held in the Nasirpur police station area on the occasion of Sharad Purnima on Sunday night.
A cancer patient and father of a deceased also died on Monday after hearing the shocking news.
According to police a speeding Brezza car crushed 17 people who were on their way to immerse the Tesu-Jhenji idol on Sunday night.
The accident occurred around 9 p.m. Following the incident, angry protesters brutally assaulted the four occupants of the car, beating them with sticks, kicking, and punching them. All of them were drunk.
Police arrived and rescued the car occupants from the mob. All the injured were admitted to hospital.
The youth in the car were traveling from Delhi to Firozabad to attend a wedding.
The condition of several injured remains critical. Treatment for the seriously injured continues in Agra. The cremation of the bodies took place amid a mournful atmosphere.
According to the incident on Sunday night, rural women, girls and men had gathered in village Chhatanpur on Bateshwar road for the marriage ceremony of Tesu Jhanjhi to be held on Sharad Purnima.
During this, a car coming at a high speed from Agra Lucknow Expressway hit the gathered people, causing chaos at the spot. Many people were hit by the car and injured. The driver in a panic drove the car ahead. The villagers chased the car and surrounded it. The villagers got angry and blocked the road by placing a tractor trolley on it. The car driver, while running away at night, returned to the spot and hit many people standing there. After that, the car collided with a tractor trolley parked on the road and the driver got seriously injured. There were four youths in the car who were in an inebriated state.
The injured were immediately transported to Shikohabad Hospital. Upon receiving information about the accident, District Magistrate Santosh Kumar Sharma, Senior Superintendent of Police Aditya Laghai, and all senior officers arrived at the hospital. The injured were taken to the Government Medical College Trauma Center, and the seriously injured were referred to Agra. Anjali, 15, her sister Akanksha, 17, and her cousin Babli, 19, died at the spot, while Gunnu, 10, and Harish, 25, died during treatment.
Gulfam, Irfan, Jagdish, and Ashish, residents of Ashok Vihar, Wajidpur, Delhi, who were also travelling in the car, were also injured and were referred to Agra with serious injuries.
According to reports, Gulfam, 35, died during treatment. The young men in the car were traveling to Firozabad to attend a wedding when the tragic accident occurred. The tragic accident has also cast a pall of gloom over the surrounding villages. A mass funeral was held on Monday for four daughters of a family.
Upon hearing the news of Harish's death in the accident, his father, Gambhir Singh, aged around 60, who was suffering from cancer and was undergoing treatment at a Lucknow hospital, died of shock on Monday.
According to the station in-charge, Nasirpur, all the bodies of those killed in the accident have been cremated after post-mortem. Legal action is being taken in the matter.
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