Two Goa tourists killed in car-truck collision near Lonavala

Two tourists from Goa were killed when their speeding car collided head-on with a mini truck near Lion’s Point in Lonavala early Saturday. The victims were part of a 14-member group on a picnic. The truck driver was injured and hospitalised

Pune: Two tourists from Goa were killed after their car collided with a mini truck at Lonavala hill station in Maharashtra in the early hours of Saturday, police said.

The victims were part of a group of 14 persons from Goa that had come to Lonavala in Pune district for a picnic, they said.

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The speeding car, carrying the two victims, collided head-on with a truck near Lion’s Point in the hill station, the police said. “The accident occurred in the early hours of Saturday. Some locals found two men stuck in the badly mangled car,” an official from Lonavala rural police station said.

The deceased have been identified as Yogesh Sutar (21) and Mayur Vengurlekar (24), both residents of Mapusa in Goa, he said. The truck driver also suffered injuries and was undergoing treatment in a hospital, the police said.

The bodies will be handed over to the relatives after the postmortem, they added.