Three people, including a woman and her daughter, died in two separate road accidents in this Uttar Pradesh district, police said on Tuesday.
Uzma (23) and her three-year-old daughter Ayat were killed when their two-wheeler was hit from behind by a speeding truck in the Kursi area late on Monday.
Kursi SHO Jagdish Prasad Shukla said Siraj Ahmed (55) was taking Uzma and Ayat to Amarsanda village when a speeding truck hit the two-wheeler from behind near Anwari village on the Lucknow-Mahmudabad Road.
Siraj was thrown by the impact of the collision while the truck passed over Uzma and Ayat. Both died on the spot, the police said.
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The driver abandoned the truck and fled after the accident. The police have sent the bodies for post-mortem.
Shukla said the truck has been impounded and a case registered. Efforts are underway to nab the driver.
In the second accident, a 30-year-old man died after a tractor-trolley collided with his motorcycle in the Baddupur area.
Ambuj Kumar of Khaira village in the Fatehpur area was on his way to his in-laws' home on Monday when his motorcycle collided with the tractor-trolley near Kathuri Kala village.
The police took a seriously injured Ambuj to the Fatehpur Community Health Centre where doctors declared him dead.
