While the woman and her two-and-a-half-old son succumbed to their injuries in hospital, her husband and daughter have been hospitalised with injuries. The four of them were travelling on a bike when the incident took place.
The completed 9 KM long section of the Metro Rail Project runs from IIT Kanpur to Moti Jheel. The entire length of the project is 32 KM and it is being built at ₹11,000 crore.
Sreedharan, fondly called India's 'Metro Man' for his immense contribution to a number of major railways and Metro rail projects, had recently joined the BJP.