Woman killed in accident

A 60-year-old woman was killed and her brother seriously injured when the scooter they were riding on was hit by a speeding truck on Thursday night near Akshardham temple in Pandav Nagar area, the police said on Friday. Shakuntala Devi, a resident of Gautam Budh Nagar, was going to the residence of her brother Mahendra, 50, in Sarai Kale Khan with him on a scooter when their two-wheeler was hit by a truck from behind near Akshardham temple and the siblings fell on the road, the police said. “A police team rushed to the spot after a PCR call and the injured where rushed to Lal Bahadur Shastri Hospital where the woman was declared brought dead. The truck driver fled from the spot with his vehicle after the incident,” said a police official. The body of the deceased was handed over to the relatives after post-mortem while Mahendra is recuperating in the hospital. A case has been registered at the Pandav Nagar police station and further investigations are on.

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