MEERUT, Aug. 29 -- A 42-year-old woman and her three-year-old son died after a wooden bridge over the Ganga collapsed while a family of five was crossing it on a motorcycle in Uttar Pradesh's Moradabad district on Friday evening, police said on Saturday. The woman's husband and two other children were rescued by villagers.

The incident occurred around 7:30 pm at Chattha near Malkpur village under Majhola police station when the family was returning home after celebrating Raksha Bandhan at the woman's parental home in Nanpur village.

According to police, labourer Anil Jatav, 45, a resident of Mahmoodpur in Chhajlet, travelled to his in-laws' home with his wife Kiran, 42, their sons Keshav, 7, and Priyanshu, 3, and daughter Kafiya, 5, for...