At least 10 persons, including two children, were killed and 34 others injured on Friday morning, when a bus collided with a truck on the Nashik-Shirdi highway in north Maharashtra.
There were 50 passengers in all at the time of the mishap. A majority of passengers were from Ambernath, Thane and Ulhasnagar.
The bus (MH 04 SK 2751) was taking pilgrim to Shirdi when the mishap took place. At that time, as many as 15 tourist buses were heading towards Shirdi
Of those killed in the mishap, five were women, three men and two children. The injured were rushed to Nashik district Civil Hospital and Sinnar Hospital.
Mourning those killed in the mishap, Maharashtra chief minister Eknath Shinde announced ex- gratia of Rs 5 lakh each to the families of the deceased.
The chief minister also ordered an inquiry into the circumstances leading to the accident.