LUCKNOW, Sept. 8 -- Three people were killed and three others critically injured after the car they were travelling in crashed into a transformer near Oel town in Lakhimpur Kheri district in the early hours of Monday, police said. The accident took place around 2.30am in the Kheri police station area, about 8km from the district headquarters. The collision was so intense that it sounded like an explosion, according to local residents. Police said the group, all residents of Lakhimpur, was travelling towards Sitapur in a car when the vehicle went out of control near Oel. The car crossed the footpath, entered a field and crashed into a transformer. The collision caused electrical wires to break and fall onto the car, triggering sparks and a fire. The six occupants became trapped inside the vehicle. Ayush Kumar, a resident of Shiv Colony, died at the spot after being burnt alive. The other five occupants suffered severe burn injuries and somehow managed to get out of the vehicle. htc...