4 kids among 5 killed as truck on wrong side rams bike in UP

MEERUT: Five members of a family, including 4 children aged betwixt 5 and 8, died aft a motortruck moving connected the incorrect broadside of NH-334 to dodge toll outgo rammed their motorcycle successful Hapur's Hafizpur area, constabulary said connected Thursday.Danish Khan, 36, a nonmigratory of Mohalla Rafiqnagar successful Hapur, was returning aft a aquatics with his daughters, Mahira, 8, and Samaira, 5, and his brother's children, Samar, 8, and Mahim, 8, erstwhile the motortruck struck them astir 10pm connected Wednesday. All 5 died successful hospital. Danish's wife, Reshma, and 2 different children from the extended family, riding connected different motorcycle, narrowly escaped.Police said the operator had entered the incorrect lane from a roadworthy chopped to debar paying road toll. ASP Vineet Bhatnagar said, "Police seized the motortruck and sent the bodies for postmortem examination. An FIR has been registered nether BNS sections 281 (rash driving oregon driving connected a nationalist way) and 106(1) (causing decease owed to negligence). Efforts are connected to apprehension the operator who fled."A video showing Danish dancing with Reshma astatine the excavation conscionable hours earlier the clang was wide circulated online. Reshma's father, Sirajuddin, said she had recovered bid with Danish aft a troubled archetypal marriage.