Panchkula, Feb. 28 -- Two separate hit-and-run road accidents tragically claimed the lives of a motorcyclist and a pedestrian in Panchkula, police said on Thursday.

The motorcyclist, 27-year-old Shamsher Rana, a resident of Kangra district, Himachal Pradesh, was returning from Mansa Devi Temple after paying obeisance, when a speeding car struck his two-wheeler near Dolphin Chowk on Thursday afternoon.

His friend, Sonali, 26, a lab technician residing in Khuda Lohara, Chandigarh, who survived the accident, narrated the mishap to police.

She said they both were returning from Mansa Devi temple on Shamsher's Bajaj Pulsar motorcycle. As they were passing near the petrol pump close to Dolphin Chowk around 2.40 pm, a speeding Maruti Suzuki A...