Raigad: 18 injured in MSRTC bus accident

At least 18 passengers were injured after a state-owned Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC) bus met with an accident in Maharashtra’s Raigad district. The incident took place around 4 pm near Karnala Bird Sanctuary, nearly 60 km from Mumbai, when the Shivshahi bus operated by the MSRTC was on a regular trip.

After learning about the accident, police rushed to the spot and rescued the injured passengers, he said. The injured passengers were shifted to a nearby hospital, he added.

Earlier, A portion of a community hall in Maharashtra's Thane district was damaged after a fire broke out in a garbage pile near it, a civic official said. No person was injured in the blaze which erupted at around 5.50 am in the garbage near the Meenatai Thackeray Hall in Bhiwandi town, Thane Municipal Corporation's regional disaster management cell chief Avinash Sawant said.