5 of family die in road mishap

Five persons of a family, including three women, died in a road mishap while they were going to a funeral ceremony, police said.

The two men and three women died on the spot, while the car's driver was grievously injured after the vehicle hit a culvert and slid around 20 feet before falling into a roadside ditch, police said.

The bodies have been sent for postmortem, while the injured driver, Prince, has been shifted to PGI, Rohtak for treatment, they said.