Six persons, including four members of a family, were killed and two others injured in two separate road accidents in Rajasthan.
In the first tragedy, four members of the same family were killed last night when the car in which they were travelling rammed into a tree in Chittorgarh district.
Sheetla Prasad (50), along with his wife Rampyari (48) and daughter and son Ekta (23) and Rahul (19), was on his way to Gujarat from Jaipur when the incident occurred near Narayanpura.
Prasad, who used to work in a private firm in Jaipur, was going home to Ahmedabad for Holi.
Police said today that he may have lost control at the wheel, leading to the accident.
The second accident occurred today in Nagaur district where two men were killed and as many injured when their vehicle rammed into the pillars of an overbridge after the driver lost control.
The mishap took place in the Shri Balaji police station area as the vehicle was heading to Sateran village from Alay, police said.
