Muzaffarnagar (UP), Nov 30 (PTI) Two siblings were crushed to death by a speeding truck near Ghasipura in the Mansurpur area on the Delhi-Dehradun National Highway in this Uttar Pradesh district on Thursday, police said.

The accident occurred on Thursday evening.

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Kuldeep (22) and his 24-year-old sister Deepa were riding a motorcycle when they were hit by a truck, the police said.

Following the accident, enraged locals blocked the national highway for two hours in protest.

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Circle Officer Ravishankar said senior police officers reached the spot and brought the situation under control.

The bodies were sent for post-mortem. The truck driver abandoned his vehicle and fled the spot, the police said.

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