Two labourers were killed and 16 others sustained injuries after a four-wheeler hit a truck from behind near Utelwa in Amethi on the Lucknow-Varanasi highway early on Wednesday morning, police said. The vehicle carrying 18 labourers, who worked in a bread factory in Varanasi, was on its way to Lucknow when the incident occurred around 4 am, SHO of the Kamrauli Police Station Abhinesh Kumar said.

According to a report in PTI, the police suspect that the driver of the vehicle was sleepy when it hit the truck from behind.