Two killed in separate road accidents in Maharashtra's Beed

Beed (Maharashtra), May 7 (PTI) Two persons were killed and as many others injured in two road accidents in Maharashtra’s Beed district, police said.

A speeding container truck hit a motorcycle carrying three persons from behind in the Annabhau Sathe Chowk area on Wednesday afternoon.

A 45-year-old woman, Pratiksha Rameshwar Chaudhary, native of Solapur district, died, while her brother and sister-in-law suffered injuries, a police official said on Wednesday.

Police later apprehended the container driver.

In another incident, a 22-year-old man died after the car he was travelling in crashed into an iron roadside structure on the Solapur-Dhule national highway late Tuesday night, an official said.

Two other car occupants seated in the front survived

as the vehicle’s airbags deployed at the time of the crash, the police said.

The deceased has been identified as Aditya Dilip Tulwe, a resident of Pendgaon in Beed tehsil, they added. PTI COR GK