Thane, Apr 22 (PTI) A 27-year-old man was killed after his car got crushed between two heavy vehicles in Maharashtra’s Thane district in the early hours of Tuesday, an official said.

The accident occurred around 4.30 am on the Mumbra Bypass Road, said Yasin Tadvi, chief of the civic disaster management cell.

He said a truck rammed into the car from behind, causing it to hit another heavy vehicle in the front. The four-wheeler got crushed between two heavy vehicles.

The victim, Vishnu Pal, a resident of Navi Mumbai, was trapped inside the mangled car and was extricated after a two-hour-long rescue effort, the official said.

Pal was rushed to a civic hospital, where doctors declared him dead on arrival, he said.

The accident affected traffic on the busy bypass road in the early morning hours. The damaged vehicles were moved using a Hydra machine.

The local police are probing into the incident, and the body of the deceased has been sent for post-mortem, the official said. PTI COR ARU