An auto-rickshaw lost control and crashed into multiple vehicles, including a luxury bus, on the Mumbai-Agra highway in Maharashtra's Thane district, resulting in the deaths of three bus passengers and injuries to 15 others. Emergency teams responded, and the injured were taken to a hospital, with three in critical condition.
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