LUCKNOW, May 15 -- Eleven people, including two women and a minor boy died in two separate road accidents that took place in Hardoi and Balrampur districts on Thursday, senior police officials confirmed.

They said six people were killed and three injured in a head-on collision of an auto rickshaw and a dumper in Hardoi on Thursday morning. In the other incident, five people were killed and eight others were injured when a car ferrying 13 people rammed into a truck from behind in Balrampur, in the wee hours of Thursday.

Hardoi superintendent of police (SP), Neeraj Kumar Jadaun, said that the auto-rickshaw and truck collision happened on Sandilla-Bangarmau Road under the Qasimpur police station limits at around 9.45 am. He said the deceas...