Kolhapur/Ratnagiri, Aug. 19 -- Five people, including three members of a family, were killed on the spot after a collision between a truck, an autorickshaw and a jeep in Maharashtra's coastal Ratnagiri district, police said today.
The accident occurred last night in Pimpari on the Chiplun-Karad road.
According to sources in Chiplun police, the accident occurred when the drivers of the rickshaw and the jeep were trying to avoid each other, and their vehicles collided with a truck coming from the opposite direction.
The deceased have been identified as Shabana Sayyad (50), Haider Sayyad (3), Niyaz Sayyad (50) and rickshaw driver Ibrahim Lono (60).
The identity of the jeep driver is yet to be ascertained, police said.
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