Car plunges 40ft, 7 medical students killed
Soumitra Bose & Balwant Dhage
TNN
26.01.2022
Nagpur/Wardha: Seven medical students returning from a birthday celebration were killed in Maharashtra's Wardha around midnight on Monday when their car plunged 40ft from a bridge in-
to the dry, rocky bed of the Badhari river along DeoliWardha Road. State BJP MLA Vijay Rahangdale's son Avishkar, a first-year MBBS student, was among the dead.
All seven victims were students of Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences at Sawangi in Wardha. It took a nightlong operation for their bodies to be retrieved from the wreckage, the police said.
PM Narendra Moditweeted his condolences to the bereaved families on Tuesday and announced ex gratia of Rs 2 lakh for each life lost in the tragedy.
Barring Avishkar, whose father is the MLA from Tirora in Gondia, the rest of the deceased were from Bihar, UP and Odisha. They had travelled to Yavatmal, around 69km from Wardha, in intern Neetesh Singh's car to celebrate first-year student Pawan Shakti's birthday. The accident occurred on the return journey, around 20km before Wardha.
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