A truck ran over six people who were removing a crashed vehicle from the road in Beed district of Maharashtra on Monday, May 26. At around 8.30 pm, a car driven by Deepak Atkare of Gevrai climbed over the divider on a stretch of National Highway-52 near Gadhi village, about 100 km.
While some people were busy removing the car, a truck ran over them at around 11.30 pm, they said. Six of them died while one was injured.
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The dead were identified as Balu Atkare, Bhagwat Paralkar, Sachin Nannavre, Manoj Karande, Krushna Jadhav, and Deepak Surayya -- all residents of Georai in Beed. Efforts are underway to trace the driver of the truck.