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KANPUR: Six persons including a mother-daughter duo were killed and around 40 other people sustained serious injuries in a road accident on Kanpur-Allahabad highway on Sunday. The identity of four others could not be ascertained yet," said superintendent of police Fatehpur Rahul Raj. "Bodies of the deceased have been shifted to mortuary and further investigations are on," he added. "The mishap occurred around 11 am when the speeding truck collided-head on against an SRTC bus of Fatehpur depot when one of its tyres got punctured and it crossed the road divider and plunged on to the wrong side," said an official. "Of the six deceased, mother-daughter duo were identified as Shikha Tripathi (27), wife of Vimlesh Tripathi, their five-year-old daughter Ashi, of Maswani locality of the district..