Jashpur (Chhattisgarh) (PTI): Five persons were killed when a car they were travelling in collided with a truck in Chhattisgarh's Jashpur district on Sunday, police said.
The accident occurred near Patratoli village under Duldula police station limits in the wee hours when the victims were heading towards Jashpur, a police official said.
The impact was so severe that the car was completely crushed. All five occupants of the car died on the spot, he said.
After the incident, some villagers rushed to the spot and immediately informed the police.
The Duldula police, with the help of locals, retrieved the bodies from the mangled vehicle and sent them to the Community Health Centre for post-mortem, the official said.
As per preliminary information, the victims were residents of the Charaidand area. Their identity was being ascertained, he added.
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Kozhikode (PTI): Three members of a family, including a girl, drowned in a river at Nadapuram in this district on Saturday, police said.
The tragic incident occurred when the family had gone to Puliyavu river near Nadapuram, to wash their clothes.
The deceased were identified as Ansar (43), his wife Suhada (39), and Isa Mariyam (8), daughter of Ansar's brother--all residents of Puliyavu here.
According to preliminary information, the child accidentally slipped into deep waters and Ansar and his wife attempted to rescue her.
But all three were also pulled in by the current and drowned.
The couple's children alerted the locals, who initiated rescue efforts.
Though they were pulled out of the water, their lives could not be saved, police said.
The bodies were shifted to the nearby state-run hospital and further procedures are underway, they added.
