Varanasi: Four friends aged between 21 and 27 were killed after their car went out of control and rammed into a roadside tree near Nechhuadih on the Nagra-Belthara Road in Ballia district late Saturday. The impact left the vehicle mangled, killing two youths on the spot and the others during treatment at a hospital in Mau early Sunday.Ballia CO (Rasra) Rajnish Kumar said the car was carrying four occupants when it went out of control and rammed into a tree. All four passengers sustained critical injuries.On reaching the spot, Nagra police rushed the injured youths to a hospital with the help of residents, where doctors declared two of them dead. The other two, who were in critical condition, were referred to a hospital in Mau, where they died during treatment around 2am.The victims were identified as Golu Thakur, 21, Kunal Paswan, 24, Dhananjay Patel, 26, and Abhishek Patel, 27. Police said Golu, Kunal and Dhananjay were residents of Gauapar in Nagra, while Abhishek was from Jamuaav in Ballia.During the initial investigation, police said the youths had come to Nagra for work and were returning home when the crash occurred near the Daityaraj Baba site.
