Sagar: Four teenage boys — all belonging to the same extended family — were crushed to death on the spot when a speeding private bus ploughed into them near Anantpura village under Rahli police station limits in Sagar district on Sunday evening.

The victims have been identified as — Shivam Pal (18), Satyam Pal (17), younger brother of Shivam, Prashant (14) — the only son of his parents and Umesh Pal (16).

According to police, the four cousins had gone searching for missing buffaloes and were standing beside a parked motorcycle on the roadside, chatting, when the Damoh-bound private bus suddenly veered out of control and rammed into them.

The impact was so severe that all four were flung several metres away and died instantly.

The devastating loss of four young lives from one family ha

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