Updated Jan 29, 2021 | 07:34 IST
The woman died after being run over by a dumper while she was returning home from the house of a relative in Koyla Nagar on Thursday evening. Enraged over woman’s death in accident, mob sets police outpost on fire in UP’s Kanpur [Representative image] | Photo Credit: iStock Images
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The villagers set the police outpost on fire following delay in arrival of police personnel to the accident spot.
The irate villagers also set ablaze three dumpers.
Heavy police force was deployed to bring the situation under control.
Kanpur: Angry villagers set a police outpost on fire after a 45-year-old woman died in a road accident in Bidhnoo area of Kanpur district in Uttar Pradesh on Thursday evening. This prompted senior officials to deploy a heavy police force to keep the situation under control.
Police outpost set ablaze by the mob
KANPUR: An irate mob on Thursday evening set ablaze a police post and three dumpers in the district’s Bidhnoo area following the death of a woman in a road accident.
Sensing trouble, a heavy deployment of police force was made to control and chase away the rampaging mob, said superintendent of police (rural) Brijesh Kumar Srivastava.
Srivastava further said a woman identified as Maya Devi (45), wife of Deshraj and a resident of Gurwa Kheda village in Bidhnoo was run over by a dumper near the Pipargawan village under the limits of Bidhnoo police station.