A heart-wrenching incident happened in Maharashtra when three people including a local PRI functionary died and two injured after their car fell off the bridge onto a moving goods train between Karjat and Panvel railway station in the wee hours of Tuesday, said the police.3 killed after their car fell off bridge onto a goods trainRepublican Party of India chief and Union minister Ramdas Athawale sought a probe into the incident.Briefing about this incident, an official of Panvel police station said that the accident took place on a bridge near Kinavali between 3.30 am and 4 am as the car was heading for Neral on Mumbai-Panvel road.The deceased were identified as Dharmanand Gaikwad (41) and his cousins Mangesh Jadhav (46) and Niteen Jadhav (48).Among the deceased, Gaikwad was an activist of the Republican Party of India (Athawale group), the official said.Official statementsThe freight train was heading from Panvel to Karjat in Raigad district and some of its wagons got decoupled due to the incident, said Dr Shivraj Manaspure, chief public relations officer of the Central Railway (CR).The Panvel-Karjat section of the CR was closed due to the accident from 3.43 am to 7.32 am, he said.Only one train, 7317 Hubballi-Dadar Express, was diverted through the Karjat-Kalyan route due to the incident, he added.In a statement released by the RPI, Union minister Athawale condoled the deaths of Gaikwad and others, and also demanded a probe into the accident.
