3 of family killed in UP road accident

Three persons of a family were killed when a truck overturned and crushed them when they were sleeping along a road in Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur on Tuesday, police said.

The truck, packed with sacks of rice, was parked when a part of the road caved in, leading to the disaster. The dead were identified as Rinku and his sons, Abhishek and Laxmi Narayan, police officer Samar Bahadur said.

--IANS

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