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Sambhal Wedding SUV Crash Kills Eight, Probe Cites Negligence

The Prime Minister’s National Relief Fund is disbursing ex-gratia payments to the victims’ families following the crash.

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As the SUV struck a wall, the collision was so severe that the inter college building suffered heavy damage, and JCB machines had to be summoned for rescuing the occupants of the SUV.
File Photo: IANS
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Overview

  • On July 5, a Mahindra Bolero SUV carrying ten family members in a wedding procession lost control at high speed and rammed into the boundary wall of Janata Inter College in Uttar Pradesh’s Sambhal district.
  • Eight occupants, including 24-year-old groom Suraj Pal and two children, died on impact or during treatment, and two survivors remain in critical condition at Aligarh Medical Centre.
  • Local police and medical teams launched an immediate rescue operation, using heavy equipment to extract the injured and transporting survivors from the Jewanai Community Health Centre to Aligarh for advanced care.
  • Sambhal police registered an FIR, dispatched all bodies for post-mortem and are conducting a detailed negligence investigation after preliminary findings blamed driver speed for the crash.
  • Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced ex-gratia payments of Rs 2 lakh to the next of kin of each deceased and Rs 50,000 to each injured from the Prime Minister’s National Relief Fund.