Thane, Jun 3 (PTI) A 52-year-old woman was killed and her husband injured after a dumper knocked down their motorbike in Maharashtra's Thane district, police said on Monday.

The incident took place on Sunday in Dombivli when the couple was returning after completing their passport-related work as they were planning to go on a trip abroad, an official from Vishnu Nagar police station said.

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The dumper driver has been arrested, he said.

The victim, Sneha Dabhilkar, was riding pillion when the speeding dumper coming from the opposite direction knocked down the motorbike, he said.

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The couple fell down and the woman was crushed to death under the dumper's wheels, the official said.

The woman's husband was injured and undergoing treatment at a hospital, he said.

The man retired from the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation recently and the couple was planning a trip abroad, the police said.

The body was sent to a government hospital for postmortem.

The dumper driver was arrested and booked under relevant provisions of the Indian Penal Code and the Motor Vehicles Act, the police added.

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