India, March 6 -- Four people were killed in separate road accidents across the national capital on Holi on Wednesday, even as a citywide enforcement drive by the Delhi Traffic Police led to nearly 5,000 prosecutions for traffic violations, police said on Thursday.

An elderly couple was killed after their scooter was hit by an overturned taxi following a multi-vehicle collision on Lajpat Nagar flyover on Wednesday evening, police said. The victims were identified as Samir Roy, 66, and his wife Chhavi Roy, 58, residents of Shastri Park in east Delhi.

Police received information about the incident from AIIMS trauma centre and Safdarjung Hospital around 11.45pm. Teams inspected the site where two damaged vehicles - a taxi and the couple's ...