A family of six, including an eight-year-old, and the driver lost their lives after the car they were travelling in collided head-on with a Shivneri AC bus near Indapur village early on Sunday.

The Wagon R was reduced to a heap of scrap after it collided with the Shivneri bus around 6 am yesterday. A police officer, who inspected the accident scene, said while five of the family members travelling in the car died on the spot, two others breathed their last while being rushed to the nearest hospital