Haldwani, Oct. 2 -- A 24-year-old national-level basketball player was killed and his wife was injured after their Scorpio SUV collided head-on with a dumper truck on National Highway 309 near Pirumadara in Uttarakhand's Ramnagar early Friday, police said.

Locals informed the police that a truck had hit a car in the Pirumadara area, following which a police team was sent to the spot, according to Ramnagar Station House Officer (SHO) Sushil Kumar.

They took possession of the body and sent it for postmortem examination, while the injured woman was taken to a hospital.

The deceased was identified as Yatish Yadav, a resident of Shahpur Bametha in Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad. Yatish was a national-level basketball player and worked as a teach...