Tragedy hit a family hailing from Bihar when five members were killed in a road mishap reported from Mahoba on early Thursday morning. The local police later sent the bodies for post-mortem examination and registered a case in this regard against the Canter driver, who abandoned the vehicle and escaped after the mishap.
Reports said that one Diwakar Bharti, hailing from Chapreta hamlet of Chapra district in Bihar, was doing his business in Gujrat. As Bharti was to attend a marriage function in his family at his native village so he along with his wife Maya (35), both sons – Vishal (7) and Virat (5), along with his maternal uncle Prem Kumar, were on way to Chapra on a Swift Desire car.
On early Thursday morning, when they were passing through Srinagar area of Mahoba on Kanpur-Sagar highway, their speeding car collided head on with a tanker coming from opposite direction killing all the five members on the spot. Some local villagers who rushed to the spot after they witnessed the incident tried to save the life but found all dead. They subsequently informed the police following which circle officer of Charkhari reached with his team members. He dispatched all the bodies for autopsy and lodged a case in the matter.