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23 killed in Maharashtra bus accident
Monday May 28, 2012 09:59:19 AM,
IANS
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Raigad (Maharashtra): At least 23 people were killed
and another 10 injured when a tempo hit two stationery private
mini-buses on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway early Monday, officials
said.
The accident occurred near Khalapur, around 80 km from Mumbai.
According to the Raigad police control, the accident occurred
shortly after midnight when one of the two ill-fated mini-buses
had halted for rectifying some technical problem.
Suddenly, a speeding loaded tempo hit the two buses from the rear,
instantaneously killing many of the occupants sleeping in the bus
and running over the others who were waiting for a relief bus.
The buses, carrying members of a marriage party from Ghatkopar
suburb of north-east Mumbai, was returning to Pune when the
gruesome accident occurred near the Khalapur village, an official
said.
Another 10 injured passengers have been rushed to hospitals in
Mumbai, Thane and Pune.
One of the bus driver, who survived, told mediapersons that the
victims were taken completely unawares by the speeding tempo and a
majority of them succumbed instantaneously after the hit.
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