India, July 16 -- Three people were killed while two got injured after a speeding truck ran over them in Kundan village on the Varanasi-Shaktinagar highway in Uttar Pradesh's Mirzapur district during early hours on Thursday, police said. Three of them were killed and two of them suffered serious injuries.

According to police, Raja Rajbhar (42), was sleeping by the roadside outside his home with other family members. Around 3am, a truck travelling from Varanasi towards Sonbhadra suddenly went out of control after its front tyre burst and ran over the people sleeping by the roadside and crashed into the wall of a house, killing Raja Rajbhar (42), his mother Sukhiya Devi (75), and Chandratara Devi (55) on the spot, and leaving Suhani Rajbha...