Ghaziabad, April 18 -- Three men were killed after a mini-bus crashed into a stationary Thar SUV and a motorcycle near an exit on the Delhi-Meerut Expressway in Ghaziabad's Vijay Nagar early Friday, police said.

The accident happened around 6am on the Delhi-Ghaziabad carriageway of the DME, and two men in the SUV and the biker were killed, police said.

Officers from Vijay Nagar police station identified the two men in the SUV as Naveen Kumar Verma, 35, a resident of East Jawahar Nagar, Loni Border (Ghaziabad), and Naveen's brother-in-law Deepak Sadana, 30, a resident of Malik Colony, Rudrapur, Uttarakhand.

The rider, who was from a bike-hailing service, was identified as Yogesh Kumar, 25, who lived in Delhi and hailed from Aligarh in U...