6 of a family killed as car collides with truck in Balrampur

AYODHYA: A total of six people, including a boiler plant operator along with his two children, wife and two siblings, were killed after the car in which they were travelling collided with an unidentified heavy vehicle on Saturday. The accident took place near Vishambharpur village in Sriduttganj area of Uttar Pradesh's Balrampur district.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath expressed "deep anguish" over the loss of lives in the road accident, his office said in a tweet in Hindi.
He has issued directions that financial assistance of Rs 2 lakh each be provided to the family members of the deceased without any delay, the Chief Minister's Office said. Sriduttganj station officer Vipul Pandey said that the deceased were identified on the basis of Aadhaar cards as Sonu Shah (28), who worked as a boiler operator at a paper mill in Nainital and had left for his village in Deoria with his wife Sujavati (25), children Ruchika (6) and Divyanshi (4), and two siblings Ravi (18), Khushi (13). Six teams have been formed to identify and seize the vehicle that collided with the victims' car, he added. The bodies have been sent for post-mortem examination.
"Around 3.30 am, Sonu allegedly dozed off following which his car swayed and changed direction and some unidentified heavy vehicle coming from the opposition direction collided head-on with his car. The impact was so strong that the car was reduced to a pulp," said Pandey.