Date:04/11/2009 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/04/stories/2009110453140300.htm

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Two persons killed in accident

Varanasi: At least two persons, including a woman pilgrim, were killed while two others were injured when the jeep in which they were travelling collided with a roadside tree in Ballia district.

Police said several pilgrims were heading towards the Ganga-Tamsa confluence to take a holy dip on the occasion of Kartik Purnima.

Driver Shailesh Rai (28) lost control of the vehicle and hit a tractor-trolley and later collided with a roadside tree near Kapuri in the district on Monday.

Rai and a woman pilgrim, Kanti Singh (50) of Bhimpur Rudrawari village, died on the spot while two other passengers were seriously injured.