Their speeding car hit the protective barrier of the bridge at Vadgaon Lakh on Tuljapur-Latur highway, he said.
Avdhut Amol Gir (5) and his grandmother Jayashree Naruttam Gir (53) lost their lives. Five other family members sustained serious injuries.
A passing truck driver rushed the unconscious child and his elderly grandfather Naruttam Prem Gir (63) to the sub-district hospital. But the child was declared dead on arrival. Naruttam Gir is currently under medical care.
The injured, Amol Naruttam Gir (30), Durga Amol Gir (24), Vaishnav Hanumant Puri (25), Geetanjali Ajinkya Gir, and Jayashree Naruttam Gir (53), were taken by ambulance to the district hospital.
However, Jayashree Gir, a Zilla parishad school teacher at Makani in Lohara tehsil, succumbed during treatment. PTI COR KRK