Two women were killed and five people, including a child, injured after a speeding truck hit their car on the Karawal-Sohna Road in Gurugram, police said on Saturday.

The accident occurred late on Friday. The women died in hospital while the injured are undergoing treatment at a private health care facility in Gurugram, they said. The truck driver fled with his vehicle after the accident, the police added.

Inderpal, a resident of Dohla village near Sohna, said in his police complaint that the accident occurred near the Karanki turn at 7.30 pm on Friday when they were returning in their car from Bhadak village in Uttar Pradesh's Aligarh district.

There were seven people, including a one-and-a-half-year old child, in the car at that time.”When our car, being driven by my brother Hariom, reached near the Karanki turn, it was hit by a speeding canter (truck) coming from Harchandpur village side.