In a tragic incident, six members of a family lost their lives, and two others sustained injuries in a road accident in Rajasthan’s Sawai Madhopur district.
The incident occurred on Sunday on the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway near the Banas river bridge.
The family was en route to offer prayers at a Ganesh temple in Sawai Madhopur when their car was struck by a vehicle, which police say is “unidentified”.
Sub-Inspector Dharampal Singh from the Bonli police station said that six family members, including Manish Sharma, his wife Anita, Kailash Sharma and his wife Santosh, Satish Sharma and his Poonam, lost their lives in the accident.
The injured children, Manan and Deepali Sharma, have been hospitalized.
Police have launched a search to apprehend the owner of the vehicle responsible for the accident.
The bodies have been sent for postmortem.