India, Feb. 16 -- Two men were killed after a truck trailer overturned and crushed a motorcycle and an auto-rickshaw on the Panipat-Jalandhar National Highway-44 near Shahpur village in Ambala Cantonment on Monday.

The deceased were identified as Tarsem Singh, a resident of Ladwa in Kurukshetra, who was on the motorcycle, and Rajesh Kumar from Yamunanagar, a passenger in the three-wheeler.

Police said the truck was headed from Delhi to Chandigarh when the driver reportedly lost control on the narrow Tangri bridge due to fog. The vehicle overturned, blocking one side of the highway and triggering a traffic jam stretching several kilometres.

Four men in a Swift SUV, including a BSNL employee from the Ambala CGM office, had a narrow escap...