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Vashi2Panvel.Com: Navi Mumbai: February 5: Two died in an accident recently at Pune- Mumbai highway due to rash driving of a Tempo. Bharat Nagnath (40) was driving Tempo no. MH14 V 9619 from Pune to Mumbai. He had offered a lift to Changdev Jale (50) and Sarvaji Pradhan (40).

Bharat tried overtake a truck on the highway in full speed, when it skid, lost its balance and overturned. Changdev died on the spot, where as Sarvaji succumbed to his injuries at the hospitalwhere he had been taken. Postmortem of both bodies was done at Panvel Rural hospital. Bharat is under New Panvel police custody from where ASI Silinkar will investigate the matter further.

Kartiki Shastry (with inputs from Dinesh Yede)