Rescue workers pull out a passenger from a bus which collided with a rickshaw and fell into a well, in Nashik on Tuesday, January 28, 2020. PTI
Mumbai, January 28
Fifteen people were killed when a speeding state transport (ST) bus collided with an auto-rickshaw and both vehicles fell into a roadside well in Maharashtra’s Nashik district on Tuesday, police said.
Many others suffered injuries in the accident which took place in the evening at Meshi Phata on the Malegaon-Deola Road in the North Maharashtra district, around 200 km from here, an official said.
The speeding ST bus crashed into the auto-rickshaw, leaving seven people dead, he said, adding the injured were mostly bus passengers.
The bodies were pulled out from the roadside well in which both the vehicles plunged after the collision, the official said.
Police and local rescue teams have reached the spot, he added. — PTI
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