Lakhimpur Kheri (UP):
A cousin of Union minister Ajay Mishra died on Wednesday after a tree branch fell on him while riding a motorcycle, police said.
The accident happened near the village of Khambhar Kheda below the boundary of the Kotwali district police station, they said.
Achin Mishra alias Sonu (41), a resident of Banveerpur village in Tikonia Police Station, is the son of the elder brother of the Union minister, police said.
He was going to Lakhimpur in the evening when a tree branch fell on him during a storm, additional Superintendent of Police Arun Kumar Singh said.
Some passers-by took him to hospital where doctors pronounced him dead, according to police.
The minister recently made headlines after his son was arrested in connection with the Lakhimpur Kheri violence on October 3 last year, which killed eight people, including four farmers and a journalist.