AMRITSAR, July 4 -- Four people were killed and five others injured as a speeding car collided head-on with an overloaded autorickshaw near Gurdwara Tahla Sahib here on Thursday.

According to the police, nine people were travelling in the auto-rickshaw at the time of the accident. "They were returning after attending a ceremony at Sur Singh Pandori village. When the three-wheeler reached Gurdwara Tahla Sahib on Tarn Taran road, a speeding Swift car, plying on the wrong side, rammed into it," said Chattiwind police station in-charge Harsimran Kaur.

According to the eyewitnesses, the car driver was likely under the influence of alcohol. The impact of the collision was so strong that both the vehicles were damaged badly. Four of the nine a...