VARANASI, May 17 -- Five people, including a woman and two children, were killed after a car rammed into a container truck from behind near the 238th milestone of the Purvanchal Expressway under Kandharapur police station area in Azamgarh district on Saturday, police said.

They were travelling from Siwan in Bihar to Faridabad in Haryana.

Chief minister Yogi Adityanath expressed grief over the incident and directed officials to ensure proper treatment for the injured.

Superintendent of police (Traffic) Pankaj Kumar Srivastava said that around 2:30 pm on Saturday, police received information through Dial 112 that a speeding car had crashed into the rear of a container truck. The car, coming from Ghazipur, was headed towards Lucknow.

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