A bus-car collision on Mumbai-Agra Highway yesterday morning killed six members of a family and their driver, who were going to Allahabad to attend a funeral of their relative, who died at the age of 105 years. One of the family members is seriously injured.
<img title="Mahfuz Khan and Sabdarjan Khan" src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/2016/feb/20-Mahfuz-Sabdarjan.jpg" alt="Mahfuz Khan and Sabdarjan Khan" /> Mahfuz Khan and Sabdarjan Khan
All of them had left from their Dadi Colony residence in Mumbra on Thursday at 4 pm in their Scorpio car.
It was when they were about 150 km away from Sarangpur of Rajgarh district that their car collided with a bus coming from the opposite direction.
The family members &mdash; Mahfuz Khan (55), his wife Akbari (50), sons Hayderjan (35) and Sabdarjan (30), 3-year-old granddaughter, brother-in-law and his wife &mdash; and driver Yusuf Shaikh (30) were in the car when the accident occurred. Everybody except the brother-in-law died on the spot.
&ldquo;They had left for Allahabad to attend the funeral of Mahfuz&rsquo;s paternal uncle, who was 105 years old. The Khan family met with an accident at around 4 am on Friday morning, when they were over taking a vehicle and hit a bus coming from the opposite direction,&rdquo; said Shakeb Anwar, one of the close friends of Mahfuz Khan, who was the general secretary of Thane All India Muslim Council and had a construction business in Mumbra.

A family of six and their driver were heading to Allahabad when their car collided with a bus on the Mumbai-Agra highway

Bus-car collision on Mumbai-Agra Highway: 7 killed en route to 105-yr-old's funeral

Drone alert by Air India pilot delays IndiGo flight by 25 minutes

A family of six and their driver were heading to Allahabad when their car collided with a bus on the Mumbai-Agra highway

Bus-car collision on Mumbai-Agra Highway: 7 killed en route to 105-yr-old's funeral

Trending Stories

Latest Photos

Latest Videos

Latest Web Stories

Mid-Day Fast

Home / Mumbai / Mumbai News / Article / Bus-car collision on Mumbai-Agra Highway: 7 killed en route to 105-yr-old's funeral

Bus-car collision on Mumbai-Agra Highway: 7 killed en route to 105-yr-old's funeral

Trending Stories

Latest Photos

Latest Videos

Latest Web Stories

Mid-Day Fast