MARDAN: Four members of a family including a couple and two children were killed when a truck overturned on a car in Mardan on Thursday-Friday midnight.

According to details, a truck loaded with marble turned turtle on a car carrying four family members on Buner Road in Mardan.

All the car riders including a man, his wife, 6-year-old son and four-year-old daughter were killed on the spot in the accident.

Rescue teams reached the scene, retrieved the dead bodies from the wreckage with use of heavy machinery and shifted them to hospital where they were handed over to heirs after legal formalities.