In a horrifying incident, three minor sisters were killed when a container truck tilted and fell on them while unloading coal in Thane’s Bhiwandi area.
Meanwhile, reports stated that their two-year-old sister escaped unhurt in the accident. The deceased girls, aged between three to seven years, were daughters of a brick kiln worker-couple, a Bhiwandi taluka police station official said.
The incident occurred at Tembivili village in Bhiwandi, Thane, on Tuesday night, January 25.
Following the incident, four persons, including the brick kiln owner, were arrested in connection with the incident, said police officials on Wednesday, January 26.
After a preliminary investigation it has come to light that a container truck was unloading coal at the brick kiln when its hydraulic system developed a snag due to which the truck tilted on one side and fell on the three sisters who were sleeping near the spot.
The mother of the four girls had allowed the three deceased siblings to sleep in a thatched hut in the brick kiln and placed the toddler in a cradle made of clothes and hung it to a tree by the side of their hut. Since the two-year-old child was some distance away from the hut, she escaped unhurt, villagers said.
The police said the father of the victims had gone out to answer nature’s call at the time of the incident.
As per the victims’ father, their family had been staying in the thatched hut in the brick kiln itself. His parents reside just a distance away.
Those arrested included Gopinath Madvi, the owner of the brick kiln, Suresh Ramdas Patil, who had brought the coal, and truck driver Toufik Shaikh, the police said.
Police registered a case under section 304 A (causing death by negligence) of the Indian Penal Code against the arrested persons, who were later produced before a local court which remanded them in police custody for two days.
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