Washim, Oct. 14 -- Three persons, including two headmasters of municipal Urdu primary schools, were killed in a head-on collision between two motorcycles near Tapovan Phata at Shelubazar in Maharashtra's Washim district on Wednesday afternoon, police said.

The deceased headmasters have been identified as Syed Abid Hussain Syed Rauf (56), headmaster of Urdu Primary School No. 1, and Nazim Mohammad Noor Mohammad (57), headmaster of Urdu Primary School No. 2, both run by the Karanja Municipal Council.

The third victim was Vijay Govinda Chavan, a resident of Pimpalgaon, who was riding the other motorcycle.

According to reports, the headmasters were travelling from Karanja to Washim to attend to work related to school staffing approval at the...