The accident took place in the wee hours on Tuesday near Sarlambe village in Shahpur tehsil, around 80 km from Mumbai, the official said. The Samruddhi Mahamarg, named Hindu Hrudaysamrat Balasaheb Thackeray Maharashtra Samruddhi Mahamarg, is a 701-km-long expressway connecting Mumbai and Nagpur.
At least 15 workers were crushed to death when a girder-installation machine fell on them at the site of an under-construction Expressway linking Mumbai with Nagpur city in the western state of Maharashtra's Thane today, the Indian media reported citing police
Seventeen workers were killed and three injured on Tuesday after a crane fell on a bridge slab during the construction of the Samruddhi Expressway s third phase in Thane district, Maharashtra. The Samruddhi Mahamarg expressway connects Mumbai and Nagpur and is being built by the Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation. Maharashtra s Chief Minister Eknath Shinde has announced Rs 5 lakh aid to the families of those deceased.