India, April 7 -- A case of abduction of two children and their father from Gurugram was unexpectedly solved when three suspected kidnappers were killed in a car crash in Uttar Pradesh's Bareilly on Sunday evening, police said on Monday. The two children, who were also in the car at the time of the crash, survived.

The matter came to light when Uttar Pradesh police received a report of a pile-up on the Delhi-Lucknow highway near Pardholi in Bareilly, in which three occupants of a Mahindra Bolero died after crashing into a parked tanker. Two motorcycle riders also died after ramming into the Bolero.

Inside the Bolero were the kidnapped children - aged six and three years - along with four accused. While three suspects were killed, the dr...