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Pune: At slightest 8 radical were killed and 13 injured aft a Mumbai-bound trailer motortruck ploughed done 13 vehicles connected the Bhumkar bridge-Navale Bridge agelong of the engaged Pune-Bengaluru road connected Thursday evening.
The trailer motortruck dragged a car for respective metres and halted aft crashing into different truck. Both the trucks and the car stuck betwixt them caught fire. Five passengers of the car — 2 men, 2 women and a three-year-old miss — and the operator and cleaner of the trailer motortruck were charred to death. The deceased were identified arsenic Swati Santosh Navalkar (37), her begetter Dattatreya Dabhade (58), parent Shanta Dabhade (54), each from the city's Dhayari Phata area, their household friend's girl Mokshita Reddy (3) of Chikhali and the car operator Dhananjay Koli (30), primitively from Kolhapur and staying successful the city's Chikhali area.
The household was returning from Narayanpur successful the car erstwhile the mishap occurred. The eighth victim, Rohit Kadam (25) of Khandala successful Satara, succumbed to his injuries successful a backstage hospital. "The motortruck operator and cleaner are yet to beryllium identified," DCP (Zone II) Sambhaji Kadam said.CM Devendra Fadnavis announced an ex gratia of Rs5 lakh each to the adjacent of kin of those who died successful the accident. "Loss of lives successful the mishap astatine Pune's Navale Bridge is highly unfortunate and painful.
I connection my condolences to the families of those who mislaid lives successful the accident," Fadnavis wrote connected ‘X'.
Pune constabulary commissioner Amitesh Kumar said a dense conveyance mislaid power and crashed into respective vehicles ahead. He said, "The interaction was truthful terrible that it sandwiched a car betwixt 2 dense vehicles, causing a monolithic occurrence that led to aggregate deaths. The injured were taken to adjacent hospitals, including Sassoon General Hospital."
The commissioner said abstracted teams person been formed to behaviour DNA sampling and forensic introspection and coordinate with doctors for autopsies and related procedures.It took astatine slightest 2 hours for the occurrence brigade to region the bodies from the vehicles. Traffic towards Mumbai connected the road came to a halt pursuing the accident. The Pune postulation constabulary diverted vehicles to alternate routes. The roadworthy is besides the city's nexus to its IT hub of Hinjewadi.DCP Kadam said the trailer motortruck loaded with robust beads was connected its mode towards Mumbai. Around 5.45pm, erstwhile it reached adjacent ‘Selfie Point' adjacent to Bhumkar bridge, the operator mislaid control, and the motortruck deed respective vehicles. "A full of 13 vehicles, including 2 trucks, cars, a minibus and two-wheelers, were damaged successful the accident," Kadam said.The DCP said the trailer motortruck dragged 1 of the cars for a fewer metres and past halted aft crashing into different truck, which was loaded with integrative beads.
"The car got stuck betwixt the 2 dense vehicles and caught occurrence pursuing an explosion. As substance leaked from the dense vehicles, the occurrence instantly spread. The 5 radical successful the car were charred to death," the DCP said.Kadam said some the compartment and the rear information of the motortruck carrying integrative beads caught fire. "The operator and the cleaner of the motortruck could not travel retired and were charred to death," helium said.Devendra Potphode, main occurrence serviceman of the Pune occurrence brigade, said, "As the car was stuck betwixt the 2 trucks, its CNG cylinder exploded and the conveyance went up successful flames.
Our archetypal occurrence tender reached the spot wrong 5 minutes of the accident. The firemen tried to rescue the car passengers who were lying motionless inside. It took 56 firemen and 30 minutes to douse the blaze."Narhe nonmigratory Sarang Navale, who witnessed the accident, told TOI that helium was connected the work roadworthy of the road erstwhile helium heard a large noise. He said, "I saw a motortruck dragging a car. Within a fewer seconds, it deed different motortruck plying ahead.
Then I heard an explosion, and wrong seconds, the car and the 2 trucks were connected fire. I parked my conveyance and rushed to assistance the mishap victims. But by then, the occurrence had dispersed and engulfed the 3 vehicles.
"An serviceman from the Sinhagad Road constabulary said a squad is trying to hint the code of the car proprietor and besides cheque its registration number. A squad of RTO officials excessively reached the spot.(With inputs from Swati Shinde-Gole, Umesh Isalkar, Anurag Bende & Joy Sengupta)
