In continuing mishaps taking toll of lives, two persons were killed and three other s injured in two road accidents reported from two places in Haridwar and Dehradun on Friday.
In Dehradun, Bharat Shamsher Thapa, a resident of Udham Singh Nagar, died and two others — Sulabh Bora and Pushpa Devi — were injured when the car they were in overturned after hitting a divider at GMS Road under Vasant Vihar police station area on Friday.
Vasant Vihar Sub-Inspector Dhanraj Bisht said the accident took place at around 5.30 am and police team rushed to the spot. All the injured were admitted at a local private hospital through 108 Ambulance.
One of the injured persons, Bharat Samsher Thapa, was declared dead by doctors. The body was handed over to the family after postmortem examination.
Thapa had reached Dehradun on Thursday to attend a marriage ceremony.
In another mishap in laksar (Haridwar), a bike-borne person, Kuldeep, a resident of Khanpur, died after he was hit by car coming from the opposite direction in lakshar on Friday.
A case under appropriate Sections of IPC was registered against unidentified persons in laksar police station, it is learnt.