Five people died after their car overturned on Bhira road in Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur Kheri, SP Sanjeev Suman told news agency ANI. The injured have been admitted to a hospital.
There were 10 passengers onboard the vehicle that was going from Shahjahanpur to Palia.
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The SUV carrying 12 was on its way to Pallia from Shahjahanpur when the accident took place near Pallia town.
The driver of the vehicle lost control due to a pothole on the road, Pallia kotwali inspector Pramod Kumar Mishra said.
The deceased included two teachers identified as Umesh Gangwar (30) of Rampur district posted at Pharsahiya primary school of Pallia block and Harnam Singh (32) posted at Himmatnagar school.
Two others were identified as Raj Kishore (54) and Vinay (25), while the identity of the fifth deceased was yet to be established, police said.
ACCIDENT IN ASSAM
Seven people were killed in two road accidents in Assam, police said on Tuesday.
Five people died in an accident in Nagaon district, while two others were killed in Sonitpur district, they said.
Both the accidents happened late on Monday, they added.
In Nagaon, five people were killed in Koliabor in Uluwoni police station area when their car collided head-on with a speeding truck on National Highway 37, police said.
Those in the car, which was on the way to Sonitpur from Bokakhat in Golaghat, were travelling for attending a wedding, they said.
"All five persons in the car were killed on the spot. We have seized the truck, but the driver and the handyman managed to escape before we reached the spot," a police officer said.
In Sonitpur, two people were killed as a speeding truck hit their motorcycle in Bihaguri near Tezpur, police said.
(With inputs from PTI)