Pune, Nov 16: Two teenagers died after a truck collided with their motorcycle at Ravet in Pimpri-Chinchwad on Saturding morning on the road leading to D Y Patil College at Ravet.
The injured teens were immediately taken to a nearby hospital by passers-by but were declared dead on arrival. Police identified them as Arul Kishore Nadar (17), a resident of Vikas Nagar in Kivale, Dehu Road and Pratap Kondia Reddy (18) of Indrayani Darshan, Dehu Road.
Around 9 am the motorcycle they were riding collided head-on with a truck.
Dehu Road police have arrested the driver of the truck, Anandrao Jagtap (45), who is a resident of Dehu Road.
The bodies of the victims were taken to Yeshwantrao Chavan Memorial Hospital (YCMH) for post-mortem and later handed over to their families.
The victims were students of a school in Nigdi¿Pradhikaran area. Arul was an amateur dancer and had taken part in a programme organised on Children’s Day in his school. He and Pratap were going from Kivale to the school when the incident occurred.
–Agencies