Maharashtra: Two killed in highway mishap

DN Bureau

Two persons, including a woman, were killed and two others critically injured in a mishap on Mumbai-Agra Highway near Shahapur here in the early hours of Tuesday.

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Thane: Two persons, including a woman, were killed and two others critically injured in a mishap on Mumbai-Agra Highway near Shahapur here in the early hours of Tuesday, the district rural police said.

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The incident took place at around 8.30 am at Asangaon village in Maharashtra's Thane district, when a tourist car travelling towards Nashik collided with a gas tanker on the highway, station house officer at Shahapur police station said.

While two persons, including a female passenger and the driver of the four-wheeler, were killed on the spot, two others were severely injured and are being treated at Shahapur rural hospital, the official said.

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The police are in the process of registering a case and bodies of the deceased have been sent for postmortem, he said, adding that the tourist vehicle had a Rajasthan registration. (PTI) 










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