Maharashtra: Three of family killed, nine others injured as bus overturns near Kolhapur

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Three members of a family were killed and nine others suffered injuries after a bus overturned near Maharashtra's Kolhapur city in the wee hours of Thursday.

Police said the accident took place at around 2 am near Puikhadi village on the outskirts of Kolhapur city, located about 240 km from Pune, when the sleeper coach bus carrying nearly 25 passengers was heading from Goa to Mumbai.

"As per the information we have received, the bus overturned when its driver was trying to negotiate a turn near Puikhadi on Kolhapur-Radhanagari road," an official from Karvir police station said.

Upon receiving the information, police and fire brigade department personnel rushed to the spot with cranes, news wire PTI reported.

"Three members of a family were killed while nine other passengers received injuries. The injured persons are currently undergoing treatment at different hospitals in Kolhapur," the official said.

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Meanwhile, on Wednesday PTI reported that an ambulance carrying harvested lungs from a hospital in Maharashtra's Pune met with an accident on its way to the city airport.

However, quick action by a surgeon and his medical team saved the life of a patient in Chennai, where the lung transplant surgery was successfully performed hours later.

The incident occurred in Pimpri Chinchwad township near Pune in Maharashtra on Monday, News wire PTI reported.

Dr Sanjeev Jadhav, a noted heart and lung transplant surgeon and his medical team, said he suffered injuries in the accident, but performed the lung transplant surgery on the 26-year-old patient in the Tamil Nadu capital.

Dr Jadhav, the chief cardiothoracic surgeon at Apollo Hospital in Navi Mumbai, said that after their ambulance met with an accident due to a suspected tyre burst on Harris Bridge in Pimpri Chinchwad, he did not waste time and got into another vehicle that was trailing the ambulance. They reached the Pune airport with the harvested lung, where a chartered plane was waiting to fly to Chennai, he said.

The lungs of a 19-year-old man who had died of suicide was retrieved at the D Y Patil Hospital in Pimpri Chinchwad on Monday. The organ was scheduled to be transported to Chennai-based Apollo Hospital, where a patient was supposed to undergo the lung transplant procedure.

The viability of the retrieved organ is generally six hours and within that period, the organ transplant must take place, so it was paramount to transport the organ to Chennai for transplant surgery on the patient, he said. (With inputs from agencies)