Kanpur, April 27 -- : Twelve people were killed and several others injured in four separate road accidents reported from Farrukhabad, Kannauj, Gorakhpur and Bahraich districts of Uttar Pradesh between Sunday and early Monday. Police said cases have been registered and investigations are underway.

Four people were killed and ten others injured on Sunday when an overloaded auto-rickshaw travelling on the wrong side of the Bareilly-Etawah highway collided head-on with a DCM truck near Jamapur crossing in Farrukhabad. Police said three of the dead were identified as Satendra Kumar, 32, his wife Tannu, 30, and their 16-month-old son Yuvaraj. All were residents of Habbapur village under Jahanganj police station. They died on the spot.

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