Three persons were killed and two others were injured after the car in which they were travelling fell off a bridge on to a moving freight train between Karjat and Panvel railway stations in Maharashtra early Tuesday, police said.
According to police, the incident took place between 3.30 am and 4 am while the car was on way to Neral on the four-lane Mumbai-Panvel road.
Personnel of Panvel police station said the deceased have been identified as Dharmanand Gaikwad (41) and his cousins Mangesh Jadhav (46) and Niteen Jadhav (48).
Gaikwad was an activist of the Republican Party of India (Athawale group) , police said. RPI chief and Union minister Ramdas Athawale condoled the deaths and sought a probe into the incident.
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The Highway Police are conducting an investigation to ascertain how the accident took place, said Dr Shivraj Manaspure, Chief Public Relations Officer of the Central Railway (CR), adding that the car hit the highway barricade before falling on to the moving train.
The goods train was en route from Panvel to Karjat in Raigad district — a single-line route where only goods trains travel. As the car fell in between two coaches, they got decoupled, said Manaspure.
Following the incident, Panvel-Karjat section of the CR was temporarily closed between 3.43 am and 7.32 am. Train no. 17317 Hubli-Dadar Express, was redirected via the Karjat-Kalyan route due to the incident, and skipped the Panvel station halt, according to CR.
