Maharashtra: Seven dead, three injured as car falls into roadside well in Jalna

Seven people were killed and three injured on Thursday after a taxi veered off the road and fell into a well in Maharashtras Jalna district The victims were returning from a pilgrimage to the temple town of Pandharpur a police official told PTIAccording to the PTI report the incident took place at 530 pm in Vasant Nagar in the districts Badnapur tehsil the official saidThe occupants of the taxi were returning from Pandharpur The deceased have been identified as Narayan Nihal 45 Prahlad Bitle 65 Prahlad Mahajan 65 Nanda Tayde 35 and Chandrabhga Ghuge who are residents of Chanegaon in Badnapur tehsil as well as Tarabai Malusare from Bhokardan and Ranjana Kamble 35 Three injured persons have been admitted to the district hospital here he saidAs per the PTI report the taxi had 12 occupants including the driver and it veered off the road while trying to avoid a motorcycle coming from the opposite direction the official saidThe official said The blackandyellow taxi fell into a well trapping some of the occupants as the front doors got jammed Some of them managed to escape as the taxi began to sink The road on that stretch does not have guard rails A crane had to be deployed to extricate the bodies from the car reported PTIIn another incident a Pandharpurbound bus carrying warkaris or pilgrims hit a tractor on the MumbaiPune Expressway leaving at least five people killed and 42 injured reported PTI on TuesdayNotably tractors are not allowed on the expresswayThe bus was carrying 54 warkaris devotees of Lord Vitthal to Pandharpur in Solapur district ahead of the Ashadhi Ekadashi celebrations from Dombivli near MumbaiAccording to deputy commissioner of police Vivek Pansare the accident took place around midnight near Panvel in Navi MumbaiAs per the PTI report the speeding bus hit the tractor from behind while trying to overtake it police said Among the five deceased three were passengers from the bus while two were persons riding on the tractor identified as driver Tarvez Salahuddin Ahmed 27 and Deepak Sohan Rajbhar 30The deceased bus passengers were identified as Hausabai Hari Patil 65 Ramdas Narayan Mukadam 71 and Gurunath Bapu Patil 65 said the PTI reportAfter hitting the tractor the bus broke through the barricade of the expressway falling into a 20footdeep gorge an official saidThe injured pilgrims were rushed to a private hospital As per the PTI report the condition of seven of them was serious he saidThe police were probing the causes of the accident and those responsible will face action the CM saidWith inputs from PTI