Meerut, Oct. 7 -- : Four members of a family, including a 49-year-old iron trader, his two sisters and 14-year-old niece, were killed after the Scorpio they were travelling in collided with a soil-mining dumper and overturned into a water-filled ditch near the Solani river bridge in Muzaffarnagar late Monday night.

Three other members of the family, including a 65-year-old woman, were injured in the accident and referred to a higher medical centre after initial treatment at the community health centre in Purkazi.

According to police, Adesh Goyal, 49, his wife Ruby, 40, mother Kusum Devi, 65, sister Nisha, 36, Nisha's 14-year-old daughter Shraddha, younger sister Rakhi, 30, and Rakhi's seven-year-old daughter Vaishnavi had gone to Haridw...