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6 killed in tempo-tractor collision in UP’s Budaun

5 injured rushed to hospital   
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Six people, including four of a family, were killed when a tempo they were travelling in was hit by a tractor in Mujaria area here on Thursday morning, police said.

Five injured were rushed to the district hospital.

The party was returning home to celebrate Diwali.

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The victims, who worked as vegetable vendors in Noida, were travelling in a three-wheeled loader tempo which collided with a tractor-trolley.

A speeding car then struck the loader, making the chance of an escape even narrower.

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Atul, 31, from Mirzapur; Kanhai, 35, from Bareilly; his wife Kusum, 30; and their children, Kartik and Sheenu, aged eight and five; died in the collision, according to Budaun District Magistrate Nidhi Srivastav.

The sixth deceased is yet to be identified, she said.

A search is on for the tractor driver who fled after the incident.

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