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Infant among 4 killed in Pune-Ahmednagar highway accident
The deceased were identified as Vimla Hake, 60; Kishore Hake, 32; and Shubham Hake, 25; all residents of Wagholi. The infant was yet to be named.
Four persons, including an infant (20-day-old), were killed when their car rammed into a stationary truck on Sunday morning. The accident took place on the Pune-Ahmednagar highway.
The deceased were identified as Vimla Hake, 60; Kishore Hake, 32; and Shubham Hake, 25; all residents of Wagholi. The infant was yet to be named.
They were travelling in a Maruti Suzuki WagonR and were headed towards Wagholi. They were returning from Nanded where Kishor’s wife had given birth to the baby 20 days ago. Kishore was travelling with his younger brother and mother.
“He has two cars which he has deployed with online taxi services. The car he was travelling in was a private car. He was bringing his baby home for the first time,” said senior police inspector Narayan Sarangkar of the Shirur police station who is investigating the case.
“The container had run out of diesel and hence, stopped in the middle of the road on the highway. At 4:15am, the WagonR rammed into the truck. There was a tea stall near the accident spot which was open and the man operating the stall heard the loud noise and called us. We rushed to the spot. It took us at least an hour to extract the bodies,” said senior PI Sarangkar.
The driver of the truck has not been found yet. However, the police have traced the owner of the truck and took him for questioning. The bodies were sent for post-mortem at a nearby government hospital before handing them over to the family.
The incident was recorded as a fatal accident at Shirur police station under the Pune rural police jurisdiction.
