2 die after car hits bike on Delhi-Lucknow highway

Two persons were killed when their motorcycle was hit by a car on the Delhi-Lucknow highway here on Thursday, police said.

Nanhe Shah (50) and his nephew Shahibe Alam (16) were on the highway when a car coming from Bareilly hit their motorcycle near the Sindhauli culvert under the Mirganj police station area, leaving them seriously injured. Both were taken to the district hospital where the doctors declared them dead, Bareilly SP Dehat Rajkumar Aggarwal said.

The dead bodies have been sent for postmortem, he said.

The police have taken the car into custody and launched a search to nab the driver, he added.