Mumbai: In a shocking incident, three students of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Bombay at Powai were killed when their car toppled near Lonavala along the Mumbai-Pune Expressway.
The students were identified as Omkumar Borse (23) from Nashik, Lay Deshbhratar (20) from Nagpur and Shreyansh Sharma (22) from Jaipur.
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They were part of a six-member group travelling towards Mumbai in two vehicles.
The others in the group included who were travelling in another car were Hitesh Kumar Meena, a resident of Jaipur; Soham Chavan, a resident of Nashik; and Siddhant Jebal, a resident of Pune.
The incident took place around 8.30 hrs on Thursday morning.
One of the group's vehicles lost control and toppled while they seemed to be overtaking a truck during a lane change.
Police are examining the CCTV footage of the stretch to determine the sequence of events leading to the crash.
Omkumar was a third-year student of aerospace engineering, Shreyansh is a fourth-year mechanical engineering student and Lay is a third-year physics student.
The accident took place around 1.5 km ahead of the Bhatan tunnel.
The autopsy report is awaited.