Maharashtra: Three of family killed in road accident in Palghar

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Three members of a family, including an 80-year-old man, were killed when the car they were travelling in collided with a truck on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad highway in Palghar district of Maharashtra, police said.

The car was going towards Mumbai from Gujarat on Wednesday when the accident took place, they said.

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"The family was returning to Kalyan in Thane district after attending a marriage in Gujarat. Their car collided with a truck at Dhanivari village," a police official said.

The bodies of the victims were sent for post-mortem to a government-run hospital and the local police are conducting a probe.

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