Eight individuals lost their lives and one sustained injuries following a collision between an SUV they were traveling in and another vehicle on the crowded Indore-Ahmedabad Highway near Betma in Madhya Pradesh’s Indore district on Wednesday night, Police reported.
Officials stated that the individuals were en route to Guna when their SUV collided with an unidentified vehicle on the four-lane highway.
“We received about a Bolero car accident on the Indore-Ahmedabad Highway in Betwa Police Station limits. There were nine people in the vehicle, and 8 of them were killed. All the people were going towards Guna,” DSP (rural) Umakant Chaudhary said.
“Of those eight people killed in the accident is a police constable. All the bodies have been sent for post-mortem examination, and the other person injured in the incident has been taken to the hospital,” he added.
More details are awaited.