Three killed, dozen injured as fog blinds UP highways

Lucknow Jan 1 (IANS) Fog and poor visibility continued to wreck havoc on roads and highways of Uttar Pradesh for the fourth consecutive day on Monday leaving three dead and more than a dozen injured in two separate accidents across the state.

According to police three persons including two brothers were killed in Billari in Moradabad when a speeding truck mowed down a bike.

The three who died on the spot have been identified as Satyendra Singh Lal Singh and Rakesh Yadav.

In another incident also due to fog and poor visibility a state transport bus going from Lucknow to Mathura lost control and rammed into a truck standing on the road side near Karampur village in Auriyya district.

A dozen persons were injured. The injured were taken to a nearby community health centre where the condition of one is stated to be serious while the others were discharged after first aid.

Vehicular traffic has been hit in a big way in most places specially the city outskirts national and state highways and also the roads leading to villages while more than a dozen people have been killed in the past few days in road accidents because of fog and poor visibility.

--IANS
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