Nagpur / Wardha: Seven medical students who returned from a birthday celebration were killed at Wardha Maharashtra around midnight on Monday when their car fell from the bridge to the dry and rocky Badhari river bed along the deoli-wardha road.
Country BJP MLA VIJAY RAHANGDALE’S SON AVASHKAR, a student of the first year MBBS, is between the dead.
The seven victims were students from the Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences in Reep in Wardha.
It took a long night for their bodies to be taken from debris, police said.
PM Narendra Modi tweeted condolences to the mourning family on Tuesday and announced the Ex Gratia Rs 2 Lakh for every life lost in the tragedy.
Forbid AVishkar, the remaining deceased came from Bihar, up and Odisha.
They have traveled to Yavatmal, about 69 km from Wardha, in NiteSh Singh’s internship car to celebrate the birthday of the first year of Pawan Shakti.
The accident occurred on the way back, about 20 km before Wardha.
Nitesh comes from Jharsuguda in Odisha while Pawan comes from Bihar style.
The other victims were Niraj Chauhan in Gorakhpur, Vivek Nandan from style, Pratyush Singh from Gorakhpur and Shubham Jaiswal from Up’s Chandauli.
Four of the deceased was in the last year of their MBBS.
Selsura Village Sarpanch Sachin Kale told TOI four to five accidents had occurred in the area for the past two months.
The SUV who transported the students was to take the path to Wardha when turning from the road at speed and crashing into the bridge barrier before falling.
The police suspected that the vehicle was traveling with no less than 140kmph.
SP Prashant Holkar said negligent rash and driver has been registered.