Pune: Sameer Kumar had just finished tucking into his dinner at a dhaba on the Goa-Mumbai highway late on Tuesday and was walking back to his garage near the Savitri bridge when he was shaken by a loud noise. He saw a bus plunging into the river from the bridge. “On hearing the noise, I thought that some vehicles had met with an accident. It was pouring. I began to yell for help when I spotted another bus falling into the river as well,” said the 28-year-old truck driver of a Mahad-based auto garage.

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