Varanasi: Three persons including a BSF jawan were crushed to death by a speeding truck in Jangipur area of Ghazipur district on Thursday night.
According to reports, BSF jawan Jitendra Kushwaha (25), a resident of Sadatpur village was posted in Tripura and had come home on a leave. He along with his cousin Sunil Kushwaha (23) and friend Ebrar Khan (23) was on his way on a motorcycle when a truck ran over them killing them on the spot.
The driver fled from the scene abandoning the truck.
The police reached the accident site and sent the bodies for postmortem. The truck was seized.