By Agencies | Posted 6 hoursHyderabad: Fifteen persons of a family from Nanded district, Maharashtra, including five women and seven children, were killed in a road mishap involving a tipper and an auto in Adilabad district of Telangana, police said yesterday. The gravel-laden tipper after the mishap that occurred on the intervening night of Saturday-Sunday. The family hails from Bhokar in Nanded and was working at the brick kilns in Nizamabad,” Bhainsa Rural police station Circle Inspector Vinod Reddy said. The deceased were on their way to a temple and had hired the auto. Pic/PTIThe incident occurred on the outskirts of Bhainsa town of the district around midnight, after a speeding gravel-laden tipper collided with the auto carrying 18 persons, Adilabad District Superintendent of Police Tarun Joshi said.

Source: Mid-Day May 15, 2016 23:11 UTC