LUCKNOW, Nov. 9 -- Four people, including two children, were killed and 11 others injured after a tractor-trolley carrying devotees returning from a Diwali fair overturned into a roadside ditch in Chitrakoot district in the early hours of Monday, officials said.

According to reports, the accident occurred around 2.30 am near a canal in Ramnagar town, under the jurisdiction of Raipura police station in Mau tehsil, around 40 km from the district headquarters. The devotees were returning after lighting lamps and offering prayers at the Diwali fair in Chitrakoot when the coupling hook connecting the trolley to the tractor suddenly came loose, causing the trolley to overturn.

Chitrakoot district magistrate Pulkit Garg confirmed that four peo...