Five persons died after a private luxury bus carrying over 50 passengers from Dombivli to Pandharpur collided with a tractor on the Mumbai-Pune Express Highway late on Monday night. The impact of the collision caused the bus to turn turtle twice and fall 10 meters away from the road breaching the railing, the police said.

According to police sources, among the five deceased were three passengers of the bus and two on the tractor. A probe into the accident is currently underway to ascertain what caused the accident on the Mumbai-Pune expressway.