Pune: A minimum of eight individuals had been killed and 13 injured after a Mumbai-bound trailer truck ploughed via 13 automobiles on the Bhumkar bridge-Navale Bridge stretch of the busy Pune-Bengaluru freeway on Thursday night. The trailer truck dragged a automotive for a number of metres and halted after crashing into one other truck. Each the vehicles and the automotive caught between them caught fireplace. 5 passengers of the automotive — two males, two girls and a three-year-old woman — and the driving force and cleaner of the trailer truck had been charred to loss of life. The deceased had been recognized as Swati Santosh Navalkar (37), her father Dattatreya Dabhade (58), mom Shanta Dabhade (54), all from town’s Dhayari Phata space, their household buddy’s daughter Mokshita Reddy (3) of Chikhali and the automotive driver Dhananjay Koli (30), initially from Kolhapur and staying within the metropolis’s Chikhali space. The household was getting back from Narayanpur within the automotive when the accident occurred. The eighth sufferer, Rohit Kadam (25) of Khandala in Satara, succumbed to his accidents in a personal hospital. “The truck driver and cleaner are but to be recognized,” DCP (Zone II) Sambhaji Kadam stated.CM Devendra Fadnavis introduced an ex gratia of Rs5 lakh every to the subsequent of kin of those that died within the accident. “Lack of lives within the accident at Pune’s Navale Bridge is extraordinarily unlucky and painful. I provide my condolences to the households of those that misplaced lives within the accident,” Fadnavis wrote on ‘X’.Pune police commissioner Amitesh Kumar stated a heavy car misplaced management and crashed into a number of automobiles forward. He stated, “The impression was so extreme that it sandwiched a automotive between two heavy automobiles, inflicting an enormous fireplace that led to a number of deaths. The injured had been taken to close by hospitals, together with Sassoon Normal Hospital.” The commissioner stated separate groups have been shaped to conduct DNA sampling and forensic examination and coordinate with medical doctors for autopsies and associated procedures.It took a minimum of two hours for the fireplace brigade to take away the our bodies from the automobiles. Visitors in direction of Mumbai on the freeway got here to a halt following the accident. The Pune visitors police diverted automobiles to various routes. The street can also be town’s hyperlink to its IT hub of Hinjewadi.DCP Kadam stated the trailer truck loaded with iron beads was on its means in direction of Mumbai. Round 5.45pm, when it reached close to ‘Selfie Level’ near Bhumkar bridge, the driving force misplaced management, and the truck hit a number of automobiles. “A complete of 13 automobiles, together with two vehicles, automobiles, a minibus and two-wheelers, had been broken within the accident,” Kadam stated.The DCP stated the trailer truck dragged one of many automobiles for a number of metres after which halted after crashing into one other truck, which was loaded with plastic beads. “The automotive obtained caught between the 2 heavy automobiles and caught fireplace following an explosion. As gasoline leaked from the heavy automobiles, the fireplace instantly unfold. The 5 individuals within the automotive had been charred to loss of life,” the DCP stated.Kadam stated each the cabin and the rear portion of the truck carrying plastic beads caught fireplace. “The driving force and the cleaner of the truck couldn’t come out and had been charred to loss of life,” he stated.Devendra Potphode, chief fireplace officer of the Pune fireplace brigade, stated, “Because the automotive was caught between the 2 vehicles, its CNG cylinder exploded and the car went up in flames. Our first fireplace tender reached the spot inside 5 minutes of the accident. The firemen tried to rescue the automotive passengers who had been mendacity immobile inside. It took 56 firemen and half-hour to douse the blaze.”Narhe resident Sarang Navale, who witnessed the accident, advised TOI that he was on the service street of the freeway when he heard a loud noise. He stated, “I noticed a truck dragging a automotive. Inside a number of seconds, it hit one other truck plying forward. Then I heard an explosion, and inside seconds, the automotive and the 2 vehicles had been on fireplace. I parked my car and rushed to assist the accident victims. However by then, the fireplace had unfold and engulfed the three automobiles.“An officer from the Sinhagad Highway police stated a crew is making an attempt to hint the deal with of the automotive proprietor and in addition test its registration quantity. A crew of RTO officers too reached the spot.(With inputs from Swati Shinde-Gole, Umesh Isalkar, Anurag Bende & Pleasure Sengupta)