Six people were killed and two others seriously injured when a car and a truck collided head-on in Barabanki district of Uttar Pradesh on Monday evening, officials said. The incident occurred around 10 pm when the vehicles were on a bridge on the Kalyani river near Kutlupur village under the Deva police station limits. All the deceased were passengers of the car and residents of Fatehpur town.

The impact of the collision was so severe that the car, which did not have a number plate and appeared new, was mangled to the extent that a crane was used to remove it off the road. Upon receiving information about the incident, police reached the spot and took the injured to a nearby community health centre and then to the district hospital. While four people died on the spot, two were declared dead at the hospital, officials said.