India, Oct. 7 -- Three professional tennis players were killed and three others critically injured after the car they were travelling in rammed into an unidentified truck from behind on the Purvanchal Expressway in Uttar Pradesh's Ayodhya early Wednesday morning.

According to the police, the accident occurred near milestone 97.500 at around 5 am, when the six players were returning from Lucknow to Deoria after playing a tennis event. According to one of the injured passengers, all of them were asleep when the crash occurred, and he could not say how the accident happened.

The impact was so severe that the car was left badly mangled, and several passengers were trapped inside. Security personnel of the Uttar Pradesh Expressways Industria...