Woman, son killed in road accident in Muzaffarnagar

A 48-year-old woman and her son were killed after the motorcycle they were travelling on was hit by a speeding vehicle in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar district on Tuesday, police said.

Subodh Kumar was taking his mother, Pushpa Devi (48), to a doctor's clinic when the vehicle rammed into their motorcycle near Talda village in Jansath, they said. The bodies have been sent for post-mortem and efforts are on to search the vehicle's driver who fled after the accident.