Guwahati: In a tragic incident, five members of a family were killed in a road accident in Basti district of UP on Sunday evening.
The accident occurred on the Lucknow-Gorakhpur highway in Munderwa area.
The tragic incident took place while the victims were going home on the occasion of Diwali.
The victims were identified as Sanjeev Kumar (60), Ankita (40), his son (17) and daughter (14), and a woman (40). The names of the three were not disclosed.
According to reports, the victims were residents of Sant Kabir Nagar.
Reportedly, the accident happened when the car they were travelling in collided with a parked container on NH 28 in Basti.
The accident was so severe that the car blew up and all five people of the same family died on the spot.
Upon receiving the information, police reached the spot and rescued the victims using gas cutters and took them to a nearby hospital, but they were pronounced dead.
The car was at a very high speed before the impact.
It was on National Highway 28 near the Khajhaula police post before it rammed into the container truck parked on the roadside.