Nine people were killed and 27 others injured in two separate road accidents in Maharashtra’s Beed district, reports PTI.
Police said that the incident took place at around 6 AM this morning at Aashta Fata. The speeding bus was enroute Mumbai towards Beed, when the driver lost its control over the wheels and met with the accident.
Ashti police station in-charge Santosh Khetmalas told news agency PTI that five people were killed in the accident, and at least 26 people injured. All the injured were rushed to different hospitals.
The deceased have been identified as Dhondiba Shinde, Deodatt Peche, Mohammad Asif Dost Mohammed Khan, Ashok Bhondve and Ravi Godambe. Four of them were residents of Beed.
In another incident, four people were killed and one injured when a speeding ambulance they were travelling in rammed into a truck from its rear side at Ambhora on Dhamangaon-Ahmednagar Road in Beed. The ambulance was heading towards Ahmednagar and the accident took place at around 9 30 PM on Wednesday.
Its driver and two persons died on the spot, while a doctor who was in the ambulance succumbed at a private hospital in Ahmednagar during treatment, the cop said.
The deceased were identified as Dr Rajesh Jhinjurke (35), ambulance driver Bharat Lokhande (35), both from Ashti, Manoj Tirpude, and Pappu Tirkhunde, from Pathardi.