Overview

• Indian Embassy officials confirmed two Indian nationals from Nagpur were among three killed in a road collision near Grosseto on the Aurelia state road.
• The victims were identified as hotelier Javed Akhtar and his wife Nadira Gulshan, who were traveling with their three children on a European holiday.
• One daughter remains in critical condition at Siena’s Le Scotte Hospital, while the other two children are being treated in hospitals in Florence and Grosseto.
• Italian media report a chain-reaction crash involving a broken-down van struck by a truck that then collided with a nine-seater minibus, a sequence now under investigation.
• Firefighters rescued five injured people and transported them to hospitals, with helicopters used for at least one airlift, as local reports also question the timing of emergency response.