Video: Two Dead After Hoarding At Lucknow Stadium Falls On Moving Car, FIR Registered

The board, put up at Lucknow's Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium fell due to strong winds, injuring three people who were admitted in a hospital, the police said

Two people died out of the three who were injured after a board fell on a moving car in Uttar Pradesh’s capital Lucknow on Monday. All the three injured including a man and two women were shifted to a local hospital, said the police. The board, put up at Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium fell due to strong winds on Mahindra Scorpio SUV, the police added, as per news agency ANI. An FIR has been registered in the case under relevant sections of the IPC at Sushant Golf City Police Station. 

In a similar incident in April this year, at least five people were killed after an iron hoarding fell on them in the Ravet Kivale area of Pimpri-Chinchwad township in the Pune district of Maharashtra. 

As per the police, the victims were seeking shelter from strong winds and huddled under the hoarding along the Mumbai-Pune highway.  

However, the wind proved too strong for the hoarding to stand upright and the massive structure collapsed on them. It killed five and injured two persons, reported news agency PTI. Following the incident, the police launched a search operation to ensure that no one else was trapped under the hoarding. The injured were taken to a nearby hospital for treatment.

"Due to heavy rains and wind, the hoarding fell on people who were standing under it for shelter. Four women and a man have died, three others are injured," Pimpri-Chinchwad ACP Padmakar Ghanwat had told the media. 

In October 2018, four people were killed in Pune after a hoarding collapsed on them. 

The 40-foot-tall hoarding fell on vehicles on the adjacent road, killing four people, including a 40-year-old man who was returning home after immersing his wife’s ashes. The incident occurred at Juna Bazaar Chowk near Pune Railway Station, where vehicles had stopped at a traffic light. The collapse damaged five auto-rickshaws, a two-wheeler, and a car. Five people were injured.

In June next year, a senior citizen was killed in Mumbai after a concrete hoarding sheet was uprooted by strong winds and crashed on him. The same day, a massive acrylic banner collapsed on three women, seriously injuring them.