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At least eight people have reportedly been killed as a bus with nearly 40 staff of an agriculture university slipped off the road into a deep gorge in Raigad district of Maharashtra. Rescue operations are currently underway to pull out survivors from the bus which rolled down the ghat in Poladpur near Mahabaleshwar. NDRF teams from Pune have rushed to the accident site.
According to initial reports, the staff members of Dapoli Agriculture University was going for a picnic when the accident took place.