Nine people including a child have been killed after a car collided with a truck on the Goa-Mumbai highway in the Repoli area of Maharashtra's Raigad district. Another child has been left injured in the accident.
The deceased included five men, three women, and one child, the Raigad Police informed.
The accident took place at 4.45 am at Repoli village in Raigad, located more than 130 km from Mumbai. The victims, all relatives, were going in the van to Guhagar in Ratnagiri district, Superintendent of Police Somnath Gharge told news agency PTI. The truck was going towards Mumbai, he said.
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"Nine people were killed. The deceased included a girl child, three women and five men," the official said.
After being alerted, police rushed to the spot and started the rescue operation, he said. A four-year-old girl injured in the accident was taken to a hospital in Mangaon, the official said.
The bodies has been sent to a government hospital for post-mortem while the cause of the accident is yet to be ascertained, the police told PTI.
Road accident in UP leaves 40 injured
A roadways bus overturned after hitting a bridge here, leaving 40 passengers injured, police said on Thursday.
The bus carrying 51 people was coming to Maharajganj from Gorakhpur when the accident took place on Wednesday night.
“Twenty-four injured passengers were admitted to a district hospital,” Ravi Rai, inspector in-charge of Sadar Kotwali police station of Mahrajganj, said.
Rai said 16 other passengers, who sustained minor injuries, were provided primary medical treatment at the spot.
Mahrajganj District Magistrate Satendra Kumar and SP Kaustubh on Thursday visited the district hospital where the injured have been admitted.