Shirdi: At least 10 passengers were killed and several others injured when a private bus collided with a truck near Ishaneshwar temple, Pathare Shivar in Maharashtra's Nashik district on Friday morning. The mishap occurred at around 6.30 am, near Pathare Shivar in Sinnar tehsil, around 180 km from Mumbai.
Chief Minister Eknath Shinde has expressed grief over the loss of life besides ordering an inquiry. He announced a financial assistance of Rs 5 lakh each for the kin of the deceased. The government will bear the expenses of the treatment of the injured persons, he said in a statement.
Around 50 people from Ambernath in Thane area were traveling to Shirdi in a private bus bearing registration number MH 04 SK 2751. The bus collided with a goods truck bearing registration number MH 48 T 1295 which was going to Sinnar from Shirdi.
As per preliminary reports, the deceased included seven women, two small boys and a man. The injured were taken to the Sinnar Rural Hospital and Yashwant Hospital in Sinnar. The death toll may increase as the condition of some of the injured was said to be critical, an official said.
Shinde also spoke to the Nashik divisional commissioner and asked him to shift the injured immediately to Nashik and Shirdi for treatment and to conduct an inquiry into the causes which led to the accident, the statement said.
