Kaushambi (UP), March 27 Eight people, including five women and three children, were killed after a pickup truck carrying devotees crashed 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 belonged to the same family and their relatives.
Around two dozen devotees, including women and children, were travelling in the pickup truck at the time of the incident, the official added.
Additional Director General of Police (Prayagraj Zone) Jyoti Narayan, who also reached the accident site, confirmed to