Maharashtra: 14-year-old boy killed, one injured after truck hits tempo on highway in Palghar

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A 14-year-old boy was killed and a man was injured after a speeding truck overturned and hit the tempo they were travelling in on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad Highway in Maharashtra's Palghar district on Saturday, police said, reported the PTI.

According to the PTI, the accident occurred around 10.30 am at Waghoba Khind on Palghar-Manor Road of the highway, an official said.

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A speeding truck overturned and hit the tempo coming from the opposite direction, killing the boy and injuring the tempo driver, he said, as per the PTI.

The tempo was left mangled, and firefighters and police had to extricate the boy's body and rescue the injured driver from the wreckage, the official said.

The boy's body has been sent to a government hospital for post-mortem, he said, adding that the police are probing into the incident.

The movement of vehicles was affected on the highway for some time due to the accident, it was stated.

Meanwhile, a worker died and another was injured after they fell from the rooftop of a seven-storey building in Maharashtra's Thane district, an official said on Friday, reported the PTI.

According to the news agency, the incident occurred at an unauthorised building in Diva town of Thane around 12.30 pm on Thursday, said Yasin Tadvi, chief of the disaster management cell of the Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC).

The two men were working on the rooftop when they lost their balance and fell, he said.

Lavkush Gautam (23) sustained severe injuries and died on the way to the hospital, while the other injured worker received treatment at a local hospital, the official said.

The Mumbra Police have initiated a probe into the accident.

In an another incident, a 22-year-old plumber died after he fell into a lift duct at a construction site in Maharashtra's Thane city, an official said on Friday, the PTI reported.

In a complaint filed at the Kapurbawdi police station, a relative of victim Pradhyum Ashok Kumar said that he was working without any safety gear when the accident took place on January 30.

Kumar sustained serious injuries after he lost his balance and plunged into a lift duct filled with water. He was taken to a hospital where doctors declared him dead, the official said citing the complaint.

The police on Thursday registered a case against the building contractor at the site under Indian Penal Code section 304A (causing death by negligence), said the station house officer of the police station.

(with PTI inputs)