Six dead in Lucknow road accident

Six people including four minor boys, aged between 13 and 15 years, were killed and six others critically injured when a speeding carrier vehicle had a head-on collision with a tanker in an area under Banthra police station limits near Lucknow in the early hours of Saturday.

The accident took place near Latif Nagar at about 2.30 am when the driver of the tanker fell asleep and rammed into the other vehicle coming from the opposite direction, Inspector in-charge of Banthra police station, Ajay Pratap Singh informed. He said the deceased had been identified as Shailendra Kumar, 35, Purshottam, 23, Ram Aadhar, 15, Sambhar, 13, Jai Karan, 13, and Rahul, 13. All of them were residents of Atrauli, Hardoi, he added.