The news of a painful accident is coming from Varanasi. A nine-year-old girl student died after being hit by a tractor while going to school in Jhanjhor of Sindhora police station area. A tractor hit a brother and sister going on a scooty near the culvert in Jhanjhor. In which the brother fell away but the sister died after coming under the tractor.
After the incident, the angry villagers set the tractor on fire. The incident is being reported at 8.30 am on Monday morning. The police reached there after a long time of the incident and the fire engine arrived after three hours.
Yashwant, the sixteen-year-old son of Omprakash Patel, a resident of Sarai village in Phulpur, was going to drop his nine-year-old sister Shweta Patel at a private school in Gangapur. Then the scooty got hit by a tractor carrying sand and cement of a building material located in Rajpur near the culvert in Jhanjhor. Due to the shock, brother Yashwant fell on the roadside along with the electric scooty and the sister came under the tractor. Due to which he died on the spot, while the brother got minor injuries.
After the incident, the nearby villagers, accusing the tractor driver of negligence, set the tractor parked a little away from the spot on fire and blocked the road demanding compensation and arrest. Sindhora police, which reached an hour after the incident on information, stood like a mute spectator and the tractor kept burning and the villagers climbed up to the house of the accused tractor owner.
The fire was extinguished after three hours of the incident when the fire brigade reached the spot. But the Jhanjhor-Mangari road remained blocked till 12 noon. Apart from ACP Amit Pandey, the villagers calmed down when the police force arrived on the incident.
