Fifteen members of a family from India’s Maharashtra, including five women and seven children, were killed in a road accident in Adilabad district of Telangana, police said on Sunday.‘The incident occurred on the outskirts of Bhainsa town of the district at around midnight on Saturday when a speeding gravel-laden tipper truck collided head on with an auto-rickshaw carrying 18 persons, Adilabad District Superintendent of Police Tarun Joshi said’, reports Press Trust of India.‘Fourteen persons died on the spot and another died on way to a hospital after the tipper fell on the auto and its occupants were crushed to death, the police officer said, adding, three others who were injured in the incident were shifted to a hospital in neighbouring Nizamabad district.’‘The deceased were on their way to a temple and had hired the auto, the SP said. ‘The deceased include five women, four boys and three girls,’ Bhainsa Rural police station Circle Inspector Vinod Reddy said.’‘The families belong to Bhokar mandal in Nanded district of Maharashtra and they had been working in brick kilns in Nizamabad, he said.’