Great loss: Renowned Orthopedician dies after being run over by speeding bus on highway
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Pune: The medical fraternity suffered a great loss after prominent orthopedician and spine surgeon Dr Ketan Khurjekar was run over by a speeding luxury bus on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway near here in Maharashtra.
The doctor along with two other colleagues was returning to Pune from a medical conference in Mumbai along with their driver. Around 10.30 pm, Dr Khurjekar had got down on the road to help his cab driver to replace one of its punctured tyre near Somatane village. While the cab driver was changing the damaged tyre, a private bus coming on that side hit them from behind, the official said. Dr Khurjekar and the cab driver, Dnyaneshwar Bhosale(27), died on the spot, he said.
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