Veteran actress Shabana Azmi met with an accident on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway in Maharashtra’s Raigad district. Reportedly, the incident took place around 3.30 pm near Khalapur, reported ANI.
“Veteran actor Shabana Azmi has been admitted at Kokilaben Ambani hospital. She is stable and under observation,” Dr Santosh Shetty, Executive Director and CEO of the hospital said in a statement.
According to doctors, she has suffered a head injury and there is slight damage to backbone.
The road accident occurred in the afternoon when the car in which she was travelling was involved in an accident with a truck.
Check out the tweets below:
Maharashtra: Actor Shabana Azmi injured in a car accident near Kahalpur on Mumbai-Pune Expressway.
— ANI (@ANI) January 18, 2020
Raigad Police: Actor Shabana Azmi&her driver got injured in accident near Kahalpur on Mumbai-Pune Expressway. Javed Akhtar was also present in the car, but he is safe. Their vehicle was hit by a truck while they were travelling from Pune to Mumbai. Injured shifted to MGM Hospital https://t.co/bezuNWvUTa pic.twitter.com/8YWtZoEUSF
— ANI (@ANI) January 18, 2020
ANI tweeted, “Maharashtra: Actor Shabana Azmi injured in a car accident near Kahalpur on Mumbai-Pune Expressway.” Many photos of the actor after meeting with the accident has hit the Internet. The media agency also revealed that Javed Akhtar was present inside the car but he is safe.
The incident took place near Khalapur, over 60 km from Mumbai, when the Tata Safari car in which they were traveling to Pune rammed into a truck, said Raigad Superintendent of Police Anil Paraskar.
A local police official said the car driver was apparently trying to overtake another vehicle and rammed into the truck.
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One more person who was travelling in the car sustained minor injuries, he said. His identity was not known yet.
Shabana Azmi injured in road accident on Mumbai- Pune Expressway
OMG! Praying so hard 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿 https://t.co/zV4XRo2pqH— Swara Bhasker (@ReallySwara) January 18, 2020
“Shabana Azmi injured in road accident on Mumbai-Pune Expressway OMG! Praying so hard,” actor Swara Bhaskar tweeted.
Hope she gets well soon!
(With Agency Inputs)