MUZAFFARNAGAR: Six people were killed in a road accident that happened on the Delhi-Haridwar national highway in the early hours of Tuesday, a police official said.

The accident happened when their car collided with a truck at Rampurtiraha.

Circle officer (Sadar) Vinay Gautam told PTI that the accident took place when the victims, who hailed from Shahdara in Delhi, were on their way to Haridwar.

The bodies of the deceased have been sent for postmortem. Further investigations are underway.