India News | Five Killed as Car Collides with Truck on Mumbai-Pune Expressway

Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. Five people were killed in an accident on the Mumbai-Pune highway after the car that they were travelling in rammed into a container truck near Shilatne Phata near Lonavala on Sunday morning, confirmed an official from the Pune Rural Police.

The damaged car after the accident. (ANI/photo)

Pune (Maharashtra) [India], January 30 (ANI): Five people were killed in an accident on the Mumbai-Pune highway after the car that they were travelling in rammed into a container truck near Shilatne Phata near Lonavala on Sunday morning, confirmed an official from the Pune Rural Police.

The accident took place around 7.30 am as the car was going from Mumbai to Pune.

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According to the primary information, the car lost control and it crossed the divider to the other side of the road while a container truck came from the other side and collided with the car.

The car was also completely damaged following the incident. The local people informed the police about the fatal incident and the highway police rushed to the spot where they found all the people inside the car dead. The police extracted the bodies from the car. Simultaneously, the container was removed from the road. All the bodies have been kept in Khandala hospital. (ANI)

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