Shahjahanpur (UP) (PTI): Five members of a family, including two children, were killed they fell off their motorcycle on the Shahjahanpur-Lucknow road in the Shera Mau Dakshin area here on Friday, police said.
Circle officer Amit Chaurasia said the incident occurred in the early hours of Friday when the victims were returning home after attending a wedding function.
Whether the motorcycle skidded on the road or was hit by a vehicle is being probed, he said.
The deceased have been identified as Raghuveer (34) his wife Jyoti (30), sister-in-law Julie (36) and their children Abhi (3), and Krishna (5), he said, adding head injury is the likely cause of their death.
The bodies have been sent for post-mortem and a probe into the matter was underway, the police official added.
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Bengaluru: The State Moon Sighting Committee has announced that Bakrid (Eid al-Adha) will be celebrated across Karnataka on May 28, as there were no confirmed reports of the sighting of the crescent moon marking the beginning of the month of Dhul Hijjah from any state in the country.
The decision was taken at a meeting of the committee held on Sunday evening at the office of the Karnataka State Waqf Board on Cunningham Road in Bengaluru.
Committee members said the announcement was made after gathering information regarding moon sighting from various districts of Karnataka as well as moon sighting committees in other states.
Dakshina Kannada Qazi Al-Haj Twaka Ahmed Musliar also made similar announcement adding that Eid-Ul-Adha will be celebrated on May 28 in Dakshina Kannada district.
