A leader of the BJP’s youth wing and his friend were killed as their speeding car hit a stationary auto-rickshaw and plunged into a pond in Madhya Pradesh's Katni district, police said on Sunday.

Two other occupants of the vehicle swam to safety following the accident that occurred in Laxman Sagar pond, about 22 km from the district headquarters, around 11.30 pm on Saturday, an official said.

The speeding car went out of control when Prashant Nayak (28), the Bilhari Mandal president of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM), was returning home with his friends Vikas Tiwari, Abhishek Chaurasia and Aman Tamrakar, all aged 26, said RP Mishra, station house officer of the Kuthla police station.

He said the car hit an autorickshaw parked along the road and then plunged into the pond.

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