Ghaziabad, Dec. 17 -- Residents of the VVIP Address high-rise in Ghaziabad's Raj Nagar Extension were left reeling on Tuesday after two members of a family and their family friend were killed in an accident on the Agra-Lucknow Expressway on their way to Lucknow.

57-year-old Ashok Agarwal, his nephew Abhinav (20) and their family friend Akash Gupta, 35, were killed after the tyre of their SUV allegedly burst, causing their car to lose control and ram into a divider. Only one person, Avneesh Kushal, 26, from Kanpur, survived the crash near kilometre 241.

On Tuesday, locals and family friends, as they waited for the bodies said Ashok was known by the 'namak wale' since his family business linked to black salt. He owned a factory at Kadraba...