6 Killed, Several Hurt After Truck Collides With Jeep In Maharashtra's Thane

The jeep, carrying some students and other persons, was proceeding from Padgha towards Khadavli railway station when the truck coming from the opposite direction hit it.

The jeep, carrying some students and other persons, was proceeding from Padgha towards Khadavli railway station when the truck coming from the opposite direction hit it.

Source : PTI

At least six persons were killed and as many others sustained injuries after a speeding container truck hit a jeep in which they were travelling in Maharashtra's Thane district on Tuesday, news agency PTI reported. The deceased have been identified as Chinmay Shinde (15), Riya Pardeshi, Chaitali Pimple (27), Santosh Anant Jadhav (50), Vasant Dharma Jadhav (50) and Prajval Firke, the police said.

According to an official from the police control room, the jeep, carrying some students and other persons, was proceeding from Padgha towards Khadavli railway station when the truck coming from the opposite direction hit it. The jeep got dragged for about 100 metres and overturned, the official further said.

#WATCH | Six people were killed and eight others injured when a container truck hit a jeep in Maharashtra's Thane district today, said Thane police

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The accident took place at around 6.30 am amid heavy rainfall in Padgha area of Bhiwandi taluka, an official from Padgha police station told PTI. Four persons succumbed to injuries on the spot while two died on way to hospital, an official from the district disaster control room said, as reported by PTI.

Three seriously injured persons were being treated at a hospital in Bhiwandi, while three others who received minor injuries were given first aid and discharged, he said. After receiving the information, some locals rushed to the spot to help the victims, the police said. The bodies were sent to a government hospital for postmortem, they said.

In another incident, Kuldeep Jaghina, the prime accused in the murder of BJP leader Kirpal Singh, was gunned down in police custody last week by around a dozen assailants in Rajasthan’s Bharatpur. According to news agency PTI, the assailants barged into a government bus, by which Kuldeep Jaghina was being transported, near the Amoli toll plaza and shot him dead.

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