Ludhiana, Feb. 21 -- Two persons were killed and two others injured after a speeding car jumped a road divider and collided head-on with a motorcycle on the elevated stretch of the Ludhiana-Ferozepur highway on Friday morning.

The deceased have been identified as Gauransh Basin, 21, a resident of Kidwai Nagar and a journalism student at a private college in Baddowal, and Jagdish Singh, 43, of Dashmesh Nagar, Gill Road, who was employed with a courier company. The injured have been identified as Charanjot Singh and Arshnoor Singh, both occupants of the car.

According to police, the accident occurred around 8.30 am near the Verka Milk Plant. Gauransh, along with his two friends, were en route to their college in a Maruti Suzuki Swift Dzir...