Eight killed as car falls into swollen drain in MP's Agar Malwa

AGAR MALWA: Eight people, among them three children and two women, were killed after their car fell into a swollen drain in Madhya Pradesh's Agar Malwa district in the early hours of Saturday, police said.

The accident occurred near the Bagulamukhi temple in Nalkheda town, around 30 km from the district headquarters, Nalkheda police station in-charge Shashi Upadhyay said.

He said that the car with devotees from Odisha fell into the drain, which was overflowing with rainwater, and the occupants, including three children, two women and three men, were killed.

The Nalkheda police launched a rescue operation, retrieved the bodies and sent them for post-mortem, the official said, adding that a case has been registered and further details are awaited.