Maharashtra: Man killed in hit-and-run in Thane district

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The police in Maharashtra's Thane district have launched a probe after a 30-year-old man was killed in a hit-and-run outside a bar on Sunday, an official said.

Hit-and-run in Thane district: Incident took place in Rajnoli village

Prashant Suresh Bhoir and two more persons had gone to the bar at Rajnoli village along the Mumbai-Nashik highway on Saturday night. The trio came out after the bar closed.

Citing the FIR, the police said the two men headed home in their respective cars but soon realised Bhoir was not there in either of the vehicles. They rushed back to the bar only to find Bhoir severely injured outside the premises.

Hit-and-run in Thane district: A probe launched

Bhoir was taken to a hospital where doctors declared him dead.

A probe is on to track down the vehicle involved in the hit-and-run, the official from Kongaon police station said. Bhoir was apparently a close aide of a local politician.

Hit-and-run in Thane district: Other incidents

A woman died and two others sustained injuries in a collision between a private bus and a state transport bus on the Nagpur-Mumbai Samruddhi Expressway in Buldhana district, Maharashtra, police reported on Sunday, reported PTI.

The incident occurred on the Chikhali-Mehkar stretch of Samruddhi Expressway on Saturday morning when a private bus travelling from Surat to Mehkar collided with a state transport bus from behind.

A female passenger aboard the state transport bus suffered fatal injuries and was pronounced dead upon arrival at a nearby hospital. Two other passengers sustained injuries and are receiving medical treatment, reported PTI.

The driver of the luxury bus has been arrested under section 304-A of the Indian Penal Code for causing death by negligence, along with other relevant charges.

In a separate incident on Sunday morning, one person was injured when a car collided with a stationary truck near Shindkhed toll plaza on the expressway. The car driver sustained minor injuries and was taken to Jalna for treatment, the PTI report added.

Another incident occurred earlier in April on the Samruddhi Expressway in Maharashtra's Nashik district, killing at least two people and badly injuring three more, according to PTI.

The SUV was going from Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar to Nashik when it lost control and flipped in Khamble Shivar hamlet, near Sinnar. The deceased were named Bajirao Eknath Gangurde (65) and Nisha Ramkisan Gatkal (20), with one admitted to a private hospital in Sinnar and the other to the District Civil Hospital in Nashik, the news agency report stated.

(With inputs from PTI)