LUCKNOW, May 24 -- A speeding dumper truck ran over five members of a family sleeping outside their home during a power outage in Barabanki district in the early hours of Saturday, killing a man and his three children while critically injuring the mother, police said.

Vikas Chandra Tripathi, Barabanki's additional superintendent of police (ASP) North, stated the accident took place around 2am on Saturday in the Fatehpur police station jurisdiction limits. Residents said the family had been forced to sleep outside due to intense heat and the absence of electricity.

He said the dumper coming from the Bahraich side first rammed into a tree before veering off the road and crushing the family sleeping outside the entrance of their house at J...