Three of family killed in car accident in Maha's Amravati

Three members of a family were killed and a minor boy was injured on Saturday afternoon when their car rammed into a tractor near Mahuli Jahangir village in Maharashtra's Amravati district, police said.

The incident happened at around 1pm when the car was trying to overtake another vehicle near a railway bridge and ploughed into the trolley of a tractor, an official said.

"Prabhakar Ramchandra Kalbende (74), his wife Rajmati (62) and son Somesh (26) were killed on the spot. Prabhakar's 8-year-old grandson Varad Surendra Daudadkar suffered minor injuries," the Mahuli police official said.