Pune, Nov 23 (PTI) Three persons, including a child, were killed and three others injured after the car they were travelling in rammed into a stationary truck in Solapur district of Maharashtra on Wednesday, police said.

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The accident took place near Shirasi on Waghdari Road in Akkalkot tehsil in the afternoon, they said.

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The deceased and the injured were traveling from Indi in Karnataka to Aland in Gulbarga district of that state, a police official said.

"When their car reached Shirasi, it rammed into a stationary truck. Three persons - a man, a woman, and a child - died in the accident, while three others sustained injuries and were rushed to a hospital," the official from Solapur Rural Police Control Room said.

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