A man and his minor son were killed while his teenage daughter was critically injured after a gas tanker ran over them when they were sleeping outside their house in Uttar Pradesh’s Firozabad district early Tuesday, police said.
The accident occurred at Mohammadpur village under the Shikohabad police station area.
Circle Officer Amrish Kumar said police received information through Dial 112 at 5.30 am that a gas tanker had run over three members of a family sleeping outside their home.
A team rushed to the spot and took the injured to the Shikohabad Joint Hospital, where doctors declared 50-year-old Kasim and his 11-year-old son Tausim dead.
Kasim’s 14-year-old daughter, Shifa, has been admitted to the hospital with critical injuries, the officer said.
Police have seized the tanker and taken its driver into custody, Kumar said.
