Six persons including two road construction supervisors were killed in a road mishap when their vehicle went off the road and dashed into a parked truck at Dudhgaon near NH-30 in Kondagaon district, police said on Wednesday.
The deceased were workers at a road construction project and were returning late on Tuesday night from the site, Kondagaon District Superintendent of Police (SP) Santosh Singh said.
The deceased were identified as Pradeep Pande, Surendra Tiwari, Ashfaq Ansari, Suresh Yadav, Raju Yadav and Ashish Bais, the SP further said.
The deceased belonged to Bihar, Jharkhand and Madhya Pradesh, Singh added.
A police team rushed to the spot on getting information about the mishap, the SP said, adding the workers were already dead and it took hours to retrieve their mutilated bodies from the damaged vehicle.
The team sent the bodies for postmortem and a case has been registered in connection with the accident, he added.