Four people killed in road accident UP's Rae Bareli

Four people were killed and as many were injured on Friday when their car dashed into a culvert and hit a tree on the roadside, police said. According to police, the incident took place around 3 am near Malin Purva village of Mill Area police station area, when the victims, part of a marriage procession, were returning from Fursatganj in Amethi.

Their car, a Scorpio, crashed into a culvert and then hit a tree on the roadside leaving all the people in the car injured, SHO Sanjay Singh said. The victims were rushed to a hospital where the doctors declared four of them -- Pankaj Pal (30), Raghavendra Yadav (50), Deepak Pal (28) and Awadhesh Pal (45) -- brought dead, the SHO said. The four injured persons are undergoing treatment, he said. The bodies have been sent for post-mortem and further investigation is underway, he added.