A four-year-old girl was killed and two others were injured as six houses collapsed in Agra due to excavation work in a nearby inn, police said on Thursday.
The incident comes two days after a multi-storey building collapsed killing three and injuring over a dozen people in Lucknow.
"A four-year-old girl has been killed," Additional District Magistrate Anjani Kumar Singh said on the phone. Uttar Pradesh Director General of Police (DGP) DS Chauhan said that rescue and relief work was going on at full speed in the Dhulia Ganj area where six houses collapsed during the excavation work.
"Our officials are present on the spot," the DGP said. The injured were admitted to a hospital, he said.
Taking cognisance of the accident, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath directed the district magistrate and senior police officers to go to the spot and conduct the relief works, an official statement said earlier.
"The six houses collapsed outside the city station located at Dhuliaganj under Hariparwat police station where the excavation work of an inn (dharamshala) was going on. Three people of a family were buried, and all have been rescued and taken to the hospital," ADM Singh said earlier.
Meanwhile, three people from Gujarat were killed and as many were injured when their car was hit by a vehicle on Lucknow-Kanpur Highway in the Unnao district, police said on Friday.
The incident occurred at around 5 am on Friday morning near Kanodia petrol pump in Achalganj police station area, they said, adding that all the deceased were members of the same family with one being the father, other two his son and grandson. They were coming to their native Biroti village in Patti area of Pratapgarh. The three injured were admitted to Unnao district hospital while the bodies were sent for post-mortem, police said.
According to the police, the occupants of the ill-fated car were coming from Navsari under Vapi police station of Gujarat. The victims were identified as Srinath Shukla, his son Devmani Shukla and grandson Yogesh Shukla. The injured were identified as Devmani's wife Kanchan Shukla, Manju Shukla, Supriya Shukla and her nine-month-old son Rudra Shukla.
