India, April 4 -- Nine members of a family, including six children were killed in a freak late-night accident in the Shivajinagar area of Dindori tehsil in Maharashtra's Nashik district on Friday.

Visuals showed scores of people gathered at the site late at night, as efforts were underway to pull people out of the well.

The operation lasted nearly two hours. The vehicle and bodies were pulled out after midnight and taken to a nearby government hospital, where doctors declared all nine brought dead.

The victims were travelling in a multi-utility vehicle (MUV) after attending a get-together organised by a private coaching institute in Dindori town, according to an earlier HT report. All were residents of Indore village in the

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