Pune News: Six persons were killed and 10 were injured after a car was crushed between two large container trucks that caught fire on a bridge along the Mumbai-Bengaluru Highway in Pune city on Thursday, police said, PTI reported. The accident that took place on the Navale Bridge in the evening, they said.

"As per the preliminary information, a heavy container truck was going towards Mumbai on the highway. When it reached the bridge, its driver lost control over it due to a suspected brake failure. This large vehicle then hit another big container moving ahead. However, a car running between these two containers got crushed," Deputy Commissioner of Police (Zone 1) Sambhaji Kadam said.

The accident triggered a huge fire, and the vehicles got engulfed in it, he said. "Six persons died in

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