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New Delhi/Mumbai. Where today a bus collided with a truck on the Nashik-Shirdi Highway in Maharashtra. At the same time, 10 people died in this accident and 16 people are said to be injured. According to the information, the people in the bus were going to visit Sai Baba.
At the same time, on this incident, Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde has expressed his condolences on the death of the people. Along with this, he has also announced an ex-gratia of Rs 5 lakh each to the families of the deceased. Along with this, CM Shinde has also given important orders to the concerned officials to investigate the incident.
Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde expresses condolences on the loss of lives in a bus accident on Nashik-Shirdi highway, announces ex-gratia of Rs 5 lakhs each to the families of the deceased. The CM has ordered relevant authorities to conduct an investigation into the incident.
— ANI (@ANI) January 13, 2023
Significantly, a private luxury bus from Thane was going from Ambernath to Shirdi in Ahmednagar district. The accident took place around 7 a.m. near Pathare Shivar in Nashik’s Sinnar tehsil, about 180 km from Mumbai, he said.
As per preliminary information, the dead included seven women, two children and a man. The injured were taken to Sinnar Rural Hospital and Yashwant Hospital. Officials said that the condition of some of the injured is said to be serious, due to which there is a possibility of increasing the death toll.
