8, including child, killed after car collides with truck, catches fire in UP

Uttar Pradesh,Dec 10 :  Eight people, including a child, were charred to death in their car after a collision with a truck on the Bareilly-Nainital highway near Bhojipura in Uttar Pradesh on Saturday night. Police said the victims, who were returning after attending a wedding, could not escape because the car was centrally locked.

The collision caused a tyre to burst after it hit the truck’s dumper, which resulted in the car veering off the opposite side of the highway. The car got dragged and crashed with the dumper, which was carrying sand gravel from Uttarakhand.

“Near Bhojipura, an accident occurred on the highway… A car collided with a truck. The car got dragged and then caught fire… The car was centrally locked, hence the people inside the car lost their lives due to the fire. The bodies have been taken out. There are 7 adults and one child. The bodies have been sent for post-mortem and further action is underway,” Bareilly SSP Ghule Sushil Chandrabhan told news agency ANI.

The authorities are trying to inform the families of the deceased, and further investigation into the matter is underway.

-ANI