Haripur, June 18: Seven people, three of them children and two women, were killed and three others seriously injured when they were hit by a car near village Kotkay on Tarbela Ghazi road, some four kilometres from Ghazi tehsil headquarter here on Sunday.

The deceased included two girls and their mother.

Eyewitnesses and police told Dawn from Tarbela Ghazi that the speeding car was going to Haripur from Mardan when its driver lost control of the vehicle and crashed against a road side electricity pole after running over the three girls and two women who were reportedly standing at Kotkay bus stop.

The girls and the women and two car passengers were killed on the spot while three others who were also travelling in the same car were seriously injured and taken to Tarbela hospital in critical condition.

Those killed in the accident were Najamun Nisa w/o Nijabat Khan her two daughters Neelam 12, Mahnoor1, Makhan Bibi w/o Sadiq, Alisha Bibi 7, d/o Mohammad Sajid, Fida Mohammad and Ali Khan r/o Mardan. The identity of three injured passengers could not be ascertained.