TIL Desk/National/Mumbai/ The death toll in Tuesday’s bus-auto rickshaw collision in Maharashtra’s Nashik district mounted to 26 on Wednesday with recovery of more bodies from the well in which both the vehicles had fallen, a police official said.
He said 32 people remained admitted in hospitals. The accident occurred on Tuesday evening when a speeding state transport (ST) bus collided with an auto-rickshaw, causing both the vehicles to fall into a roadside well at Meshi Ghat near Deola in the north Maharashtra district, around 200 kms from here.
“As
of now we have pulled out 15 bodies from the well and injured have been rushed
to state-run hospitals in Malegaon and Deola,” Sadashiv Waghmare, Deputy
Superintendent of Police, Nashik Rural, said. The Maharashtra State Road
Transport Corporation-run (MSRTC) bus was on its way to Kalwan in Nashik from
the adjoining Dhule district, while the auto-rickshaw was coming from opposite
direction, he said.
