VARANASI, Oct. 5 -- A 24-year-old fish seller was killed and three others seriously injured after a speeding truck ran over them at a fish stall in Chamaraha Bazaar under Cholapur police station area in Varanasi on Sunday, police said.

The deceased was identified as Vikas Sonkar (24), while one of the injured was identified as Soti Harijan. The identities of the other two injured were not immediately known.

According to eyewitnesses, the dumper truck, travelling from Varanasi towards Azamgarh, went out of control, broke through a roadside drain and hit an electric pole before running over Vikas, who was sitting at his stall. It then hit three others and crashed into an adjoining house.

Locals rushed the injured to hospital, where docto...