Jaunpur (UP), Nov 5 (PTI) Two persons, including a DCM driver and a truck cleaner, were killed after a DCM vehicle collided head-on with a truck on the Varanasi-Lucknow highway here, police said on Wednesday.

The incident occurred late Tuesday night near Maharupur village under Jafarabad police station limits, they added.

The DCM, loaded with goods from Varanasi, was being driven by Ramachal (36), a resident of Sultanpur, and was headed towards Lucknow. Around midnight, allegedly due to drowsiness, the driver lost control and crashed through the divider, entering the opposite lane, where the vehicle rammed into an oncoming truck, Superintendent of Police (Rural) Atish Kumar Singh said.

The impact killed Ramachal on the spot, Singh added.

The truck cleaner, Zahoor Ahmad Malik (40), a re

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