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In a tragic incident, a 14-year-old girl sleeping in her home along the Mumbai Nasik Highway, died on Friday after a truck lost control and fell onto to her in Thane city. The girl, Madhu Bhatia, who sold soft toys along the highway, was trapped beneath the vehicle for over two hours before the truck was pulled up using a crane.

The incident took place early on Friday morning, when the truck driver lost control of the vehicle near Majiwada flyover towards Nasik end, along the Mumbai-Nasik Highway and collided with a hut at the side of the road.

The Kapurbawdi police called for a crane to pull out the truck, however the girl had died by the time she was rescued