Two school girls were killed and five other children were injured when the vehicle they were travelling in overturned in Chitrakoot district of Uttar Pradesh, a senior police official said on Thursday.
The students of a school in Kol Gadhiya village had taken a lift in the tractor-trolley on Wednesday afternoon on their way home when it overturned while negotiating a turn, Superintendent of Police Manoj Kumar Jha said.
Shanti (12) and Vibha (13) died on the spot, Jha said.
Five other school children were injured and admitted to a hospital, he said adding that the driver fled the scene leaving the tractor-trolley behind.
