Six dead as car falls into 600-foot gorge in ghat area of Maharashtra's Nashik

Six persons were killed aft a car fell into a 600-foot heavy gorge successful Saptashring Garh Ghat successful Nashik's Kalwan taluka connected Sunday (December 7, 2025), a constabulary authoritative said.

The incidental took spot astatine 4 p.m. and the deceased are from Pimpalgaon Baswant successful Niphad taluka, the authoritative added.

"They died connected the spot. The Toyota Innova vehicle, which had 7 passengers, suffered dense damage. The deceased person been identified arsenic Kirti Patel (50), Raseela Patel (50), Vitthal Patel (65), Lata Patel (60), Vachan Patel (60) and Maniben Patel (70). Superintendent of constabulary Balasaheb Patil is supervising rescue operations," the authoritative said.

The operations are underway with the deployment of unit from the constabulary arsenic good arsenic territory catastrophe absorption committee, said nonmigratory lawman collector and District Disaster Authority CEO Rohitkumar Rajput.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis called the incidental "extremely tragic" and said families of the deceased volition beryllium provided fiscal assistance of ₹5 lakh each from the State government.

The authorities stands with the families of the victims and rescue enactment is successful advancement with afloat administrative enactment astatine the spot, the CM added.