Shahjahanpur (UP), Jan 14 (PTI) Four persons, including a 10-year-old girl, were killed in separate road accidents in the district on Saturday, police said.

Additional Superintendent of Police Sanjay Kumar said Rakesh (45) and his 22-year-old son Pintu were travelling to Hardoi on their motorcycle when it was hit by an unidentified vehicle near an overbridge. Both of them died on the spot.

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In another accident near Dharmagatpur village on Puwayan-Mohammadi Road, a speeding car hit a 10-year-old girl grazing a goat on the roadside before ramming into a cyclist, Kumar said.

Both of them died some time later.

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Kumar said the police were trying to trace the two vehicles that caused the accidents.

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