Five persons including two children of a family were killed while two sustained serious injuries when their car dashed against a roadside tree near Malout. Accident took place late last night when car’s driver in a bid to avoid collision with a stray animal on the road lost control over the vehicle and dashed it against a tree at Malout-Lambi highway. The family was coming from Panipat and going towards Ganganagar. Deceased were identified as Gaurav Khurana (33), Sirki Khurana (31), Preeti Chawla (30), Prakaran Chawla (4) and one-and-a-half-year-old Bulbul.