In the Palghar district of Maharashtra, a 27-year-old woman riding pillion on a motorbike died after her dupatta (stole) got entangled in a wheel of the two-wheeler. The incident took place on Sunday morning when Pratima Yadav, from Kandivali in neighbouring Mumbai, was returning with her husband after visiting a temple in Vasai area here, an official from Naigaon police station said.
Her stole got entangled in the motorbike wheel near Bapane village on a highway. She got strangulated and fell down from the two-wheeler, the official said. The woman received severe injuries and was rushed to a local hospital where doctors declared her brought dead, the police said. The body was sent to a government hospital for postmortem, they added.