Five killed, Twenty two injured in MP vehicle mishap

As many as five persons were killed on Sunday and 22 others injured when the vehicle carrying them overturned at a village near Rajgarh, police said.

The mishap occurred at Goghatpur, around 70 km from here, when a marriage party that had come to Ghagori village from Jhalawar district in Rajasthan, was returning, Machalpur police station sub inspector Mohan Singh Rajput told. The axle of the bus broke following which the driver lost control and it overturned in which Balaram Dangi (35), Prabhulal Dangi (40) and Radhashyam Dangi (25) - all locals - were killed on the spot, he said.

The Madhya Pradesh police are yet to get the names of two other deceased as they succumbed to their injuries during treatment in Jhalawar, Rajput said. The injured have been admitted to a hospital in Jhalawar and investigations are underway, the officer added.