Ludhiana, July 17 -- Three people were killed, including two men from Ludhiana, and two others injured early Thursday morning when their SUV collided with a truck carrying oxygen cylinders on the Bareilly-Pilibhit Highway in Uttar Pradesh.

The impact was so severe that three occupants died on the spot, while two others sustained critical injuries. Police from Nawabganj police station reached the scene and initiated a rescue operation. The UP police have arrested the truck driver Pancham Lal, a resident of Mathurapur.

The police sent the bodies to the government hospital for the postmortem and rushed the injured to hospital.

The victims were identified as commission agent and sheller owner Santokh Singh Bajwa, 65, of Iraq village, Harji...