India, Oct. 19 -- Five people, including an 11-year-old boy, were killed after their car swerved to avoid potholes and collided with a state transport bus in Beed district on Sunday morning, police said. The accident occurred around 11 am at Shindewadi Cross Road on the Khamgaon-Pandharpur National Highway in Majalgaon tehsil, around 55 km from the district headquarters, police said.

According to a police officer from Beed, the victims were travelling towards Tuljapur in Dharashiv district when their car crashed into a Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC) bus coming from the opposite direction. All the victims were from Majalgaon in Beed.

The collision reduced the car to a mangled heap of metal, killing all five occupant...