LUCKNOW, Nov. 9 -- Six people, including a woman, were burnt alive after their car crashed into a highway divider and an electricity pole before catching fire on the Panipat-Khatima National Highway in Muzaffarnagar in the early hours of Monday, officials said.

Additional SP (Rural) Akshay Sanjay Mahadik said Titawi police received information at 4.50 am that a car had rammed into a divider and an electricity pole on the flyover beyond Jaggahedi toll plaza and caught fire. Police, fire brigade personnel and a forensic science laboratory (FSL) team rushed to the spot and brought the blaze under control.

Mahadik said six people travelling in the car were burnt alive and efforts were underway to establish their identities.

The victims, be...