The thick smog hanging over northern parts of the country caused road fatalities due to poor visibility killing six people in highway pile-ups, while a 70-year-old woman was burnt to death in a paddy field fire in Punjab's Moga district on Sunday.
While three people were killed in a pile-up on Rohtak-Gohana road, a 70-vehicle collision in Karnal killed a woman and left more than 50 people injured. One man died in Panipat in another road accident caused by the smog, while another person was killed in a pile-up on NH-24 involving eight vehicles near Bareilly. Six people were wounded in that accident.
On Saturday, too, six people were killed and 13 injured when the van they were in collided head-on with a truck in Sawant Khera village in Haryana's Dabwali district. The death toll due to road accidents and stubble fires has reached 13 in the last two days.
Rohtak SSP Rakesh Arya said poor visibility caused the accidents.Many vehicles were seen parked along along the sides on the Karnal-Delhi highway, with their drivers waiting for the visibility to improve.
“We were busy rushing the injured to hospitals and trauma centres,'' said inspector Balwan Singh, SHO of Samalkha police station.
Jeeto Kaur of Dosanjh village in Moga suffered 70% burns from the paddy field fire and died at Guru Gobind Singh Medical College, in Faridkot, on Sunday. The owner of the farm, Gurpreet Singh, had set it on fire to clear the paddy stubble -an illegal practice considered the major reason behind the dense smog. He was arrested.
SHO Jaskaran Singh at Mehna PS said, “A case under Section 304A (causing death by negligence) has been registered against Gurpreet.“ Jeeto had wandered into the burning paddy field and got trapped in the stubble fire.
“She lived near the fields. On Saturday evening, she was going to her home, but wandered into the fire because of the smoke. She fell near the fields,“ said Sukhwinder Singh of Dosanjh village.
Smog engulfs western UP too
Bareilly: The unprecedented level of air pollution enveloping the national capital region has now spread to western Uttar Pradesh, triggering respiratory ailments among residents and causing road accidents due to poor visibility. Several cities in Bareilly, Meerut and Agra divisions have been engulfed in haze since Saturday morning.Since November 4, over a dozen separate pile-ups have been reported on the national highways. On Sunday, an accident on the NH-24 in Bareilly led to the death of one person and injuries to six others. According to experts, reduced air movement and high humidity had led to the fall in air quality in the region.
In Bareilly, PM10 was 2.7 times higher than the prescribed limit. In Meerut and Agra, smog had reduced visibility to 200 and 400 metres, respectively, on Sunday. TNN
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