Two people, including a child, who were being treated at a trauma centre after sustaining major injuries in a road accident at the Kalayani river bridge in Uttar Pradesh’s Barabanki have died, officials said on Tuesday.

With this, the death toll in the road accident has increased to eight.

Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Barabanki Avdhesh Kumar Yadav informed that the incident occurred late at night after a collision between a car and a truck on the Deva-Fathepur road. Six people who were travelling in the car died on the

spot.

“The accident occurred late at night. The incident took place on a bridge on the Kalyani River under the Deva-Fatehpur (police station) limits. Two vehicles, a car and a truck, collided, in which six people sitting in the car died on the spot, CMO Yadav said.

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