Six people were killed and 10 injured in a bus-truck collision in Maharashtra's Buldhana district, police said. A Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC) bus collided with a container truck on Tuesday morning near Sindkhed Raja town on the old Mumbai-Nagpur Highway in the district. The site of the incident was located more than 450 kilometres away from Maharashtra's capital, reported news agency PTI.
The bus was headed towards Buldhana's Mehkar from Pune as per a police official. While talking to PTI, he said, "Six persons were killed and 10 others received injuries." There were four bus passengers among the deceased along with the drivers of both vehicles.
The official further said that the people who got injured in the accident were rushed to a hospital in Sindkhed Raja town.
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At least six persons were injured when a truck hit multiple vehicles after its brake failed on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway on April 27, news agency PTI reported. The truck hit at least 12 vehicles, leading to six persons suffering injuries, near Khopoli in Raigad district, officials said.
"Police teams rushed to the site and sent the injured to the hospital. Vehicular traffic towards Mumbai was affected for some time," PTI quoted an official as saying. No casualty has been reported yet.
In a similar incident, as many as twelve people were injured in an accident after the bus they were travelling in overturned while trying to avoid a collision with a two-wheeler, on the Pune-Solapur highway near Bhandgaon village in Daund on April 24.
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