Five members of a family were killed after the car they were travelling in rammed into a stranded container truck near the Khajhaula police outpost in Munderwa area of Basti district of Uttar Pradesh on late Sunday evening, said police.

The accident occurred on the Lucknow-Gorakhpur highway at around 7:30 pm.

Basti Superintendent of Police (SP) Ashish Srivastava said that the accident happened when the car collided with a parked container on NH 28 in Basti.