According to officials, five youths who were travelling in a car which collided head on with a container. They had gone to drop a friend home, and were returning when the accident took place, they said.
Pictures of the incident are now doing rounds on social media. The traffic was severely hit following the incident and the daily commuters were stranded in the middle of the road in the scorching heat.
Basti (Uttar Pradesh) [India], October 24 (ANI): Five members of a family were killed after the car they were travelling in rammed into a stranded container truck near the Khajhaula police outpost in Munderwa area of Basti district of Uttar Pradesh on late Sunday evening, said police.
Pune (Maharashtra) [India], August 17 (ANI): Five members of a family died after a car collided with a container truck that was driving on the wrong side of the road on the Ahmednagar-Pune Highway in Pune in the early hours of Wednesday, police said.
Hanoi [Vietnam], February 21 (ANI): China has suspended trade through the border gate in Vietnam's Lao Cai Province after COVID-19 cases emerged on its side, leaving hundreds of container trucks stranded.
Pune (Maharashtra) [India], January 30 (ANI): Five people were killed in an accident on the Mumbai-Pune highway after the car that they were travelling in rammed into a container truck near Shilatne Phata near Lonavala on Sunday morning, confirmed an official from the Pune Rural Police.
Hanoi [Vietnam], December 25 (ANI): Exporters could lose USD 131 to 175 million as thousands of container trucks remain stuck at the Vietnam and China border.