The state forest department will ask the NHAI to construct two underpasses at the site where 12 blackbucks fell and died on Saturday. Wildlife experts have suggested that nets be installed to prevent wild animals from getting on the highway.

A herd of 15 blackbucks are said to have jumped off a bridge onto the Solapur-Pune-Mangalvedha National Highway on Saturday evening. While 12 died, three were injured. According to a forest department official, the blackbucks were trying to cross the highway when they fell 35 feet onto the Solapur-Mandrup bypass road, on Saturday evening. Three blackbucks were injured.