Ambedkar Nagar (UP), May 4 -- Eight people were crushed to death by a speeding car in Jalalpur area of the district at midnight on Sunday.

Police said here on Monday that the incident occurred when people were helping the injured after a head on collision between two motorcycle near Ashrafpur on the Akbarpur road under Jalalpur Kotwali police station area at 12:00AM.

Meanwhile, a speeding Swift Dzire car crushed the people present and overturned into a ditch, injuring approximately eight people.

Upon receiving the information, police rushed all the injured to the Community Health Center where doctors declared six of them brought dead.

The remaining two were referred to the Government Medical College, Sadarpur, where they too died during...