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MUMBAI: A woman and her one-year-old son who were part of a group headed to Gujarat for a wedding died on the spot after their five-seater van had a collision with a truck on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad highway at Kasa in Palghar on Saturday. Six others, including the driver, were injured.
Nazneen Shaikh (37), who was on the rear seat with her son Muzain on her lap, died on the spot. Six others of the Shaikh family are in hospital.
Residents of Palghar the family had left around 3 pm for Vapi on Saturday. As the van reached Dhanori village, the right tyre of the vehicle burst. The driver, Ayan Shaikh, lost control of the vehicle which collided with a truck that was ahead of it, said assistant inspector Umesh Patil of Kasa police station.
MUMBAI: A woman and her one year-old son, part of a group, headed to Gujarat for a wedding were killed on the spot after their five-seater van collide.
Re-invented The Cold War: Spymaster Author John le Carre Dies at 89 Published December 14th, 2020 - 08:08 GMT
In this file photo taken on October 15, 2017 British author John le Carre (David John Moore Cornwell) gives a speech in Hamburg at the Elbphilharmonie, where he presented his new book A Legacy Of Spies . John Le Carre, the British writer best known for his Cold War espionage novels Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and The Spy Who Came In From The Cold , has died aged 89, his agent said on December 13, 2020. Daniel Bockwoldt / dpa / AFP
British best-selling author David Cornwell, better known as John le Carre whose Cold War-era spy novels transformed the espionage genre, died over the weekend, his literary agent said. He was 89 years old.