Six persons of a family, including a woman and a six month child, were killed and one injured in an accident near Arakera (K) village in Gurmitkal taluk of Yadgir district on late Thursday night.
According to Superintendent of Police C.B. Vedamurthy, the mishap occurred when the car, in which the family was returning to Yadgir after performing rituals at a dargah in Jathlapalli village in Kodangal of Telangana, had a head on collision with a goods vehicle coming from the opposite direction.
Four people were killed on spot and two others breathed their last on the way to the hospital.
