Bareilly (UP): Eight people, including a child, were charred to death near Bhojipura area of Uttar Pradesh’s Bareilly district on Saturday night when their car caught fire after colliding with a dumper.

Police sources said that the accident occurred on Bareilly-Nainital highway in the late hours of Saturday after a tire of the car burst, causing it to veer off to the wrong lane and hit a dumper coming from the opposite direction.

Police sources said that the car caught fire and all its eight passengers were charred to death.

"The front portion of the dumper also caught fire as it dragged the car for about 25 meters," police said.

Police sources said that the deceased have been identified as Irfan, Arif (24), Shadab (10), Asif (22), Alim (22), Ayub (36), Munne (60) and Asif (28).

Police said that the passengers could not escape even as the vehicle caught fire as the car was centrally locked.

The bodies have been taken out of the burned car.

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has expressed grief over the loss of lives in the incident.

He prayed for the peace of departed souls and expressed sympathies towards the bereaved families.

(With UNI inputs)