Pilibhit, January 2
Two people were killed and three seriously injured when their car’s driver lost control of the vehicle and rammed it into a house here, police said on Monday.
The accident took place near Devipura village under the Sungarhi police station area on Sunday evening, Circle Officer (City) Satish Shukla said.
The youths were returning from a New Year picnic organised near the Pilibhit Tiger Reserve, he said, adding that Nitesh Gangwar (26) and Prajwal Yadav (28) were killed in the accident.
Saransh Gangwar, Subodh Gupta and Rajveer Singh had been hospitalised, he said.
They are residents of Izzatnagar of Bareilly and had gone for the picnic at Chuka, police said. They added that the bodies had been sent for post-mortem.
The accident happened because the car’s driver lost control of the vehicle. It went off the road and rammed into a house, Shukla said.