Six people, including five members of a family from Kerala, were killed on Monday when the car they were travelling in met with an accident in the Kurnool district, police said.

A senior police official told PTI that the mishap took place at about 2.30 AM when the car rammed into a culvert near Mallepalle in Veldurthi Mandal in Kurnool.

P D Robin (35), hailing from Delampady village in Kerala's Kasaragod district, his father (60) and mother (54), his wife, around 30 years of age, and their four-month-old son died on the spot in the accident, he said.
The driver of the vehicle, Pawan was also killed in the mishap.
They were returning from Kottayam, from where Robin's wife hailed, after "baptism" of their son, to Makhtal village in Telangana's Mahabubunagar district, where he runs a school, a family friend said.