Varanasi: A trader was killed after being hit by a speeding car at busy Maidagin crossing.The trader, Rajkumar Aggarwal (62), a resident of Bangali Bada in Visheshwarganj area, was returning home late on Saturday night. He was passing through Kotwali police station area when a car taking U-turn in high speed hit him.Passersby rushed to help him on hearing his scream, however, the driver managed to escape with the car.Inspector Kotwali Daya Shankar Singh took Agrawal to SPG divisional hospital where doctors decalred him dead.Police identified the driver and the car by scanning CCTV footage of the accident site.ACP (Kotwali) Vijay Pratap Singh said that police had succeeded in tracing the car with the help of CCTV footages after sending the body for postmortem. The erring driver will be nabbed soon, he said.
