Three killed five injured in truck accident in Pune district

Pune, Jul 19 (PTI) Three persons were killed and five others injured after a truck mowed down a group of people in Maharashtra's Pune district on Friday, police said.
    The accident occurred near Alephata in Junnar Tehsil on the Ahmednagar-Kalyan Road around 11.30 am, an official said.
    The victims were returning after performing last rites at a crematorium, he said.
    The driver of the truck, which was heading towards Kalyan, lost control of the vehicle on a slope at Gulunjwadi village and mowed down a group of people, the official from Alephata police station said.
    Three persons, including a woman and a child, were killed, and five to six others sustained injuries and were rushed to a nearby hospital, he said.
    The police were in the process of registering a case, the official said

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