Overview
- The car, traveling from Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar toward Jafrabad, struck pedestrian Bhagvan Bankar on a morning walk, leaving him seriously injured before veering off the Bhokardan–Jafrabad road.
- Teams from Hasnabad and Tembhurni police stations, the local fire brigade and the district disaster management unit mounted a multi-hour operation in roughly 60 feet of water.
- The vehicle was lifted out with a crane and multiple bodies were recovered as the search and recovery concluded.
- Casualty figures evolved through the day, with an earlier update citing one confirmed death and four feared drowned before police confirmed five fatalities.
- Victims included family members, and local reporting said one passenger, Nirmala Dakle, was being driven for paralysis treatment.