{"id":182901,"date":"2022-10-02T13:28:46","date_gmt":"2022-10-02T10:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/?p=182901"},"modified":"2022-10-02T13:28:46","modified_gmt":"2022-10-02T10:28:46","slug":"tractor-trolley-carrying-hindu-devotees-crashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/tractor-trolley-carrying-hindu-devotees-crashes\/","title":{"rendered":"Tractor trolley carrying Hindu devotees crashes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-182902\" src=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/AP22275221493912.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"770\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/AP22275221493912.webp 770w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/AP22275221493912-300x200.webp 300w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/AP22275221493912-768x513.webp 768w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/AP22275221493912-696x465.webp 696w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/AP22275221493912-629x420.webp 629w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A farm tractor trolley carrying Hindu pilgrims has overturned and fallen into a pond in Ghatampur in\u00a0northern India\u2019s\u00a0Kanpur city, killing 26 people, most of them women and children, officials said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Superintendent of Police Tej Swaroop Singh of Kanpur said the wagon was carrying about 40 people returning from a ceremony at a nearby Hindu temple on Saturday night. He said most of the deaths were due to drowning.<\/p>\n<p>At least 10 people were injured in the accident in Kanpur, about 100km (60 miles) southwest of Uttar Pradesh state\u2019s capital, Lucknow. The injured have been taken to hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the accident is still under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi offered his condolences.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDistressed by the tractor-trolley mishap took place in Kanpur. My thoughts are with all those who have lost their near and dear ones and prayers with the injured,\u201d Modi tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>It is the second incident in the last week in Uttar Pradesh \u2013 a tractor carrying people overturned on Monday, killing at least 10 people.<\/p>\n<p>Uttar Pradesh\u2019s top elected official Yogi Adityanath discouraged the use of farm tractors for passenger transport.<\/p>\n<div class=\"container--ads in-article-ads\">\n<div class=\"ads\">\n<div class=\"ads__slot\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cA tractor-trolley should be used for agricultural work and to transfer goods, not to ferry people,\u201d he said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic accidents are frequent in India with more than 150,000 people killed last year, or more than 400 per day, according to official statistics which are likely an underestimate.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-182902\" src=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/AP22275221493912.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"770\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/AP22275221493912.webp 770w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/AP22275221493912-300x200.webp 300w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/AP22275221493912-768x513.webp 768w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/AP22275221493912-696x465.webp 696w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/AP22275221493912-629x420.webp 629w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-182903\" src=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/AP22275221472538.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"770\" height=\"513\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/AP22275221472538.webp 770w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/AP22275221472538-300x200.webp 300w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/AP22275221472538-768x512.webp 768w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/AP22275221472538-696x464.webp 696w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/AP22275221472538-630x420.webp 630w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_182904\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-182904\" style=\"width: 790px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-182904\" src=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/kanpur-accident.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"790\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/kanpur-accident.jpeg 790w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/kanpur-accident-300x201.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/kanpur-accident-768x515.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/kanpur-accident-696x467.jpeg 696w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/kanpur-accident-626x420.jpeg 626w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 790px) 100vw, 790px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-182904\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">26 killed due to tractor-trolley overturning, many injured compensation announced.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A farm tractor trolley carrying Hindu pilgrims has overturned and fallen into a pond in Ghatampur in\u00a0northern India\u2019s\u00a0Kanpur city, killing 26 people, most of them women and children, officials said on Sunday. Superintendent of Police Tej Swaroop Singh of Kanpur said the wagon was carrying about 40 people returning from a ceremony at a nearby [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":182902,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10221280388112155_325455220908133":"","twitter_917774835383787521_917774835383787521":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182901"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182905,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182901\/revisions\/182905"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}