Meerut, April 3 -- Eid festivities turned into a devastating tragedy when four people of a family died in a car-tractor trolley accident on the Barla-Basera Road, in Muzaffarnagar, late on Tuesday night.

Two women and two children of the Meerut family died, leaving three others seriously injured.

The family was travelling from Kamalpur village in Meerut to Gopali village in the Deoband area of Saharanpur to join relatives for Eid festivities. Mohd Junaid, 42, a resident of Kamalpur, who had recently returned from Saudi Arabia, was driving his Maruti Swift Dzire car with his wife Khushnuma, 35, daughter Saniya, 15, and other family members, including his granddaughters Tooba, 17 months, and three-year-old Mirha.

According to the police,...