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Four persons were killed and three others injured when two cars collided on the Aurangabad-Jalgaon highway near Aurangabad in Central Maharashtra, police said on Monday. The mishap took place near Aland Phata late Sunday night, when two SUV cars collided head-on at the highway, Assistant Police Inspector Narsigh Shinde of Wadodbazar Police Station said.
Due to impact of the crash, four of the passengers in the cars died on the spot, he said. They were identified as Mangala Zhavar (47), Dashrat Bawaskar(38), Sohail Pathan (27) and Dwarkesh N Zhanvar (18).
Two of the injured – Somnath Zhavar and Shaikh Arif were admitted to the Government Medical College and Hospital in Aurangabad, while the third one is yet to be identified, Shinde said.
The accident comes just four days after another mishap on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway killed four and critically injured another. The police had said then that they suspected “the driver lost control due to high speed. The car hit the pillar of Devle Bridge. While four people died on the spot, the fifth was rushed to Lokmanya Hospital.” In an earlier incident, six college students between the ages of 18 and 24 were killed after their car turned turtle near Kamshet on the Pune-Mumbai Expressway in the early hours of July 26.