LAKHIMPUR KHERI, Feb. 8 -- Dense fog and poor visibility turned deadly on Saturday night as six people, including three children, lost their lives in two separate road accidents across Lakhimpur Kheri district.

In the first incident on Dhaurahra-Rehuva road near Basantapur village, three children, Talib, 5, Khushbu, 12 and Ajra, 2, and auto-rickshaw driver Israil, 30, died when their vehicle overturned into a roadside ditch late Saturday night, Dhaurahra police officials said.

The victims, residents of Unchgaon village under Khamaria police limits, were returning from a religious function in Dhaurahra town when the accident occurred around midnight.

Dhaurahra kotwali incharge Ravindra Sonkar told Hindustan Times that poor visibility pr...