Mumbai trekkers’ bus plunges 50 feet into gorge in Pune; two dead, 18 injured
Two people from Mumbai were killed and 18 others injured after a tourist bus fell 50 feet into a valley in the Pabe Ghat section of Pune district’s Velhe taluka in the early hours of Sunday. The accident occurred when a group of employees from a private firm in Andheri East, Mumbai, were on their way to Rajgad Fort for a trek.
The accident occurred at around 2 am on the downhill stretch of Pabe Ghat when the bus allegedly went out of the driver’s control while negotiating a sharp bend, the police said.
The deceased were identified as Vishwas Baburao Satim, 25, a resident of Nehru Nagar in Vile Parle, Mumbai, and Dhwani Chandresh Thakkar, 23, a resident of Kandivali. Eighteen other passengers sustained injuries ranging from minor to serious head injuries and were shifted to a local hospital for treatment.
