Six people were killed after a car and a tempo collided head-on in Maharashtra's Beed district on Sunday morning, police said.
The accident took place around 5.30 am on Manjarsumba-Patoda highway, they said.
As per preliminary information, a family from Jiwachiwadi village in Kej tehsil was going in the car to Pune to attend a marriage ceremony when their vehicle and the tempo hit each other, a police official said.
Five members of the family and one other person were killed, the official said.
Police had to use a crane to separate the two vehicles, he said.
A process was on to identify the victims, the police added.
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