10 dead, 35 injured as bus turns turtle and container falls on it on Pune-Satara highway

Agencies

Kolhapur, 04 February 2014: Ten people were killed and at least 35 others injured when a tourist bus turned turtle and the container of a heavy commercial vehicle (HCV) fell on it 700 metres outside the tunnel of the Khambatki ghat on the Pune-Satara road on Monday night.

 

Only last month, nine people were killed when the container of an HCV fell on their tempo at the same spot. Two of the deceased in that accident were from Pune. 

 

Inspector Shridhar Jadhav of the Khandala police station said all the bus passengers were Gujaratis who were travelling from Kolhapur in the direction of Pune. While the bus had a Gujarat registration number, it was not immediately known where it was headed to. 

 

Jadhav said the occupants of around five vehicles stopped to help the bus passengers. However, the container of the speeding HCV coming from behind fell on the bus and also on some of the other vehicles.