Four killed, three injured as car crashes into e-rickshaw in UP's Pratapgarh

Four people, including two women, were killed and three injured when a car hit their e-rickshaw in the Raniganj area of this Uttar Pradesh district, police here said on Tuesday.

The accident occurred late on Monday. The victims were returning from a wedding in the e-rickshaw when the car crashed into it on the Lucknow-Varanasi National Highway near Rajapur Manapatti village, injuring seven persons, the police said.

The victims were taken to a nearby hospital, where doctors declared Aastha (35), Naveen Srivastava (30), his wife Saumya (28) and e-rickshaw driver Anwar (35) dead, the police said. The condition of the three others are stated to be stable, they added.