Kaushambi, March 27 -- Eight people, including five women and three children, were killed after a pickup truck carrying devotees rammed into a stationary trailer truck on a national highway here on Friday, police said.

The accident occurred around 4 pm near the Doroma petrol pump in the Saini area.

The vehicle, travelling from Prayagraj to Fatehpur, crashed into a trailer truck parked on the roadside, a local police officer said.

The victims, residents of the Jahanabad-Bindki area in Fatehpur district, were returning home after visiting the Maa Sheetla shrine at Kada Dham. They had earlier travelled to Prayagraj to attend a child's tonsure ceremony, police said, adding that the injured beklonged to the same family and their relatives....