5 dead in MP as 2 speeding bikes collide head-on

BHOPAL: Five persons, four of them under 20 and a 21-year-old, died when two speeding motorcycles collided head-on in Madhya Pradesh's Chhindwara on Saturday, police said. The bikers were triple riding.

Around 11pm, three persons on a motorcycle were on way to Ligapani village. Three others on another motorcycle were coming from the other direction. They crashed into each other on the Amarwara-Chourai road.

The deceased were identified as Sukhram Yadav (21), Ayush Yadav (19), Shahzad Khan (19), Vikram Uike (18), and Raja Parteti (18). Avinash Uike (18) is severely injured and being treated at Chhindwara district hospital.

Amarwara police station in-charge, Rajendra Dhurve, told TOI, "Two of them died on the spot. The others were rushed to hospital, but three bikers passed away there."

In another accident, three persons died and 18 others were injured when a private bus collided with a truck and fell into a gorge in Shajapur.