At least 12 people have been killed and 27 others injured after the bus they have been touring in fell right into a gorge at the vintage Mumbai-Pune motorway in Raigad district of Maharashtra early on Saturday, police stated.
The personal bus sporting contributors of a conventional song troupe became going from Pune to Mumbai whilst it fell into the gorge close to Shingroba temple at the motorway round 4:50 am, a senior police authentic stated.
The coincidence passed off below the Khopoli police station limits. “The bus became sporting contributors of `Baji Prabhu Vaadak Group’ from Mumbai’s Goregaon. They have been returning to Goregaon after taking component in an occasion in Pimpri Chinchwad place in Pune district. The bus had left the venue round 1 am on Saturday,” he stated, including that as a minimum 12 people have been killed and 27 others injured withinside the coincidence.
The injured and people who died have been from Sion and Goregaon in Mumbai and Virar in neighbouring Palghar district, Raigad Superintendent of Police (SP) Somnath Gharge stated. The injured have been admitted to the Khopoli Rural Hospital, he added.
Additional SP Atul Zende stated the lifeless and the injured belonged to the age institution of 18 to 25. A crew of nearby police and a trekker’s institution are presently engaged withinside the rescue operation, police stated. Khopoli city is placed round 70 km from Mumbai.