At least 17 labourers were killed and 15 others received injuries when a speeding truck overturned in western Maharashtra’s Satara district in India in the early hours of Tuesday, the police said.
The truck, carrying construction labourers from Bijapur district in Karnataka, was going towards Pune when it met with the accident around 4.30am on Mumbai-Bengaluru highway passing through the district, around 250km from here, Satara’s superintendent of police Sandeep Patil said.
The driver apparently lost control over the wheels at an accident-prone stop near Khambatki ghat. As a result, the vehicle rammed into a barricade and then overturned, Times of India reported citing PTI.
At least 17 labourers died on the spot, while 15 others sustained injuries, Patil said.
Being tipped-off, the Khandala police rushed the spot and took all the victims to a nearby hospital, he said.