One person dead, 2 injured after crane collides with metro pillar in Mumbai

One person died and two others were injured after a crane rammed into a metro pillar near a bus stop at Andheri Gundavali near Western Express Highway.

Mumbai (Maharashtra): One person died and two others were injured after a crane rammed into a metro pillar in Mumbai on Saturday morning.

A metro crane which was going from Jogeshwari towards Bandra lost control and collided with a metro pillar near a bus stop at Andheri Gundavali near Western Express Highway. The impact of the collision was so strong that the crane split into two parts.

A woman standing at the bus stop got trapped under the rear wheels of crane and died on the spot. Two more people who were nearby were also injured and they have been admitted in a hospital.

The driver of the crane escaped from the spot. The police reached the spot and the body was sent to post-mortem.

Earlier, on October 21, five people were killed and 34 others injured when their speeding bus fell into a gorge in Maharashtra's Nandurbar district.

The accident took place at Kondaibari ghat around 3.15 am when the private bus was going from Malkapur to Surat in Gujarat, he said.

As per preliminary information, the bus driver lost control over the wheels in the ghat section following which the vehicle fell into the nearly 30-feet deep gorge, he said.

Withinputs from ANI