In a fatal mishap, five persons were killed and seven others were injured when their Tavera jeep collided head-on with a tractor-trolley near Anchalkheda on the Tawa River bridge in the wee hours of Monday in Narmadapuram (formerly Hoshangabad) district of Madhya Pradesh.
According to the police, the victims were returning from Mana village in Budhni tehsil of Sehore district as part of a marriage party when the accident occurred around 1:30 a.m.
The Tavera collided with a tractor-trolley loaded with soybean, killing five people on the spot and injuring seven others.
According to Makhan Nagar police station in-charge Anup Kumar Uikey, the deceased were identified as Sahil Yadav (19), Hari Singh Yadav (57), Vineet Yadav (22), Shubham Morappa (18), and Santosh Prajapati.
The injured persons were admitted to a hospital in Makhan Nagar.