Maharashtra: Man killed after car hits three vehicles in Thane

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One person was killed and another seriously injured when a car hit three vehicles in Maharashtra's Thane city, civic officials said on Thursday.

The accident took place at around 11 pm on Wednesday on the Eastern Express Highway opposite a mall in the city.

A car hit another car and two auto-rickshaws. Two occupants of the car which was hit got trapped in the vehicle, Thane Municipal Corporation's Regional Disaster Management Cell (RDMC) chief Avinash Sawant said.

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After being alerted, police, local firemen and the RDMC team rushed to the spot. Before their arrival, some locals rushed the two car occupants to a hospital where one of them was declared brought dead, the official said.

The deceased was identified as Abhimanyu Prajapati (32), a resident of Thane city's Balkum area, he said.

The body was sent to a government hospital for post-mortem.

The other injured person was undergoing treatment at the hospital, the official said.

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