MEERUT, Jan. 19 -- A man and a three-year-old child were killed, while three others were seriously injured, after the car they were travelling in was crushed between two speeding trucks on the Delhi-Lucknow National Highway-24 on Monday. The collision occurred within the Civil Lines police station limits in Rampur district, said police.

The impact was so severe that the car was badly mangled after being trapped between the two heavy vehicles. Upon receiving information, the Civil Lines inspector and a police team rushed to the spot. A fire brigade team was also deployed and carried out an intensive rescue operation for nearly an hour to extricate the trapped passengers.

All the injured were rushed to the district hospital, where doctors...