Gujarat: Car-truck collision kills eight of family in Tarapur taluka

ANAND: Nine people were killed after the car they were travelling in collided with a truck coming from opposite direction near Indranaj village of Tarapur taluka in Anand district early on Wednesday morning.
All the deceased — five men, two women and two children — were residents of Bhavnagar district. They met with the fatal accident on Tarapur-Vataman state highway at around 6.20 am.
After attending a social function in Maharashtra’s Jalgaon district, the deceased, eight of them belonging to the same family, were returning to Bhavnagar when the speeding truck hit the car. All the occupants were killed on the spot and their bodies got trapped inside the mangled car.
After the accident, 108 emergency ambulance rushed to the spot and the bodies were sent to Tarapur referral hospital for post-mortem.
The deceased have been identified as Siraj Ajmeri (40), his wife Mumtaj Ajmeri (34) and their five-year-old son Raees Ajmeri. A native of Vartej, Siraj, who currently lived with his family in Sidsar village near Bhavnagar, used to earn a living by selling cotton mattresses.
Siraj’s sister Aneesa Ajmeri, 32, her husband Altaf Ajmeri, 38, and their daughter Muskaan Ajmeri, 12, also died on the spot. They were residents of Vartej.
Along with these six, Rahim Saiyed, 60, and Mustufa Deriya, 27, were among other deceased. Rahim, who owned an auto parts shop in Vartej, was Mustufa’s maternal uncle and had accompanied the Ajmeri family for attending the function. The car was owned by Raghav Gohel, 48, a driver by profession, who was also killed in the accident.