Truck rams into car carrying Unnao rape survivor, family; 1 killed
Rae Bareli/Unnao, Jul 28: A vehicle in which the survivor of Unnao rape case, her family and lawyer were travelling was hit by an over-speeding truck, killing one member while leaving her and two others injured in Rae Bareli on Sunday, police said.
BJP MLA Kuldeep Sengar who is an accused in the rape case was arrested on April 13 last year.
Unnao Superintendent of Police Madhav Prasad Verma said the victim, her paternal aunt, maternal aunt along with their advocate sustained serious injuries in the accident when they were on their way to meet her uncle, who is lodged in Rae Bareli jail.
Her maternal aunt succumbed to injuries in a district hospital while the others have been transferred to a trauma centre in Lucknow and given security, police said.
Verma also said that on the directives of senior officials, he along with the mother of the survivor, three sisters and brother are rushing to Lucknow.
Quoting eyewitnesses, Rae Bareli Superintendent of Police Sunil Kumar Singh told PTI that an over-speeding truck hit the car carrying the rape survivor.
"There were showers and the truck driver lost control over the vehicle. The car driver tried to save the passengers, and but they sustained serious injuries," he said.
The truck driver has fled from the spot after the accident.
A woman belonging to the Makhi police station area in Unnao had alleged that Sengar, a four-time MLA who represents Bangermau in the UP Assembly, raped her teenage daughter at his residence in 2017.
The case had come to light after the victim allegedly attempted self-immolation outside Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's residence.
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US VP JD Vance says Lebanon not part of ceasefire, calls it ‘misunderstanding’
Budapest/Washington: US Vice President J D Vance has said that Lebanon was never included in the ceasefire understanding with Iran, describing the confusion as a “legitimate misunderstanding”.
Speaking to reporters before departing from Hungary, Vance said, “I think the Iranians thought that the ceasefire included Lebanon and it just didn’t. We never made that promise.”
He stressed that the United States had not included Lebanon in the scope of the ceasefire at any stage.
His remarks come amid continued Israeli strikes in Lebanon, where more than 200 people were reported killed, even as ceasefire talks between Iran and the US move forward.
Vance said Israel had “offered … to check themselves a little bit in Lebanon because they want to make sure that our negotiation is successful”.
He warned that if Iran allows the situation in Lebanon to affect the negotiations, it could derail the talks.
“If Iran wants to let this negotiation fall apart in a conflict where they were getting hammered over Lebanon, which has nothing to do with them and which the United States never once said was part of the ceasefire, that’s ultimately their choice,” he said.
