India, July 18 -- Three families returning joyfully from a birthday party at a relative's house in Nashik had their lives tragically cut short before they could reach their homes, as the Alto car they were travelling in collided head-on with a bike in the Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC) area in Dindori tehsil on Wednesday night at around 11:30pm.

The impact of the collision was so intense that the car veered off the road, overturned, and plunged into a roadside drain filled with water, resulting in the death of the seven occupants, trapped inside the submerged car, one of them a three-year-old boy, Bhavesh.

Dindori police have identified the deceased as Devidas Pandit Gangurde (28), his wife Manisha Gangurde (23), and their...