NAGPUR: Four women and a 12-year-old girl were among six killed in a ghastly car accident on Samruddhi Mahamarg near Mehkar in
Maharashtra's Buldhana district on Sunday morning.
Around seven people sustained injuries in the accident.
It's learnt that Barve and Borude families from Aurangabad were travelling to Shegaon. They had left Aurangabad at 6am and had planned to return on the same day.
Police said the car had veered towards the right for some reasons before crashing into the roadside barriers and then somersaulted numbers of times before crossing the divider and landed on the other side of the road.
The deceased have been identified as Pramila Borude (45), Bhagyashri Borude (27), Shradha Barve (35), Janhvi Barve (12), Kiran Borude (35), and Kausabai Bharat Barve (50).
SP Sarang Awad of Buldhana, who inspected the spot, said the injured were shifted to private hospital in Aurangabad in ambulance. "Police had acted swiftly after being alerted. We are still ascertaining the reason and manner in which the accident had taken place," said Awad.
Senior inspector of Mehkar police station Amarnath Nagre said the post-mortem and other formalities were under way.