Mumbai-Pune Expressway Crisis Ends After 30 Hours; Traffic Normalizes

• The Mumbai-Pune Expressway, India's first expressway, reopened early Thursday morning after a 30-hour crisis caused by an overturned gas tanker.
• A gas tanker carrying flammable propylene gas overturned in the Khandala Ghat section on Tuesday evening, leading to a 20 km traffic jam.
• Passengers, including women and children, were stranded for approximately 30 hours without access to food, water, or toilet facilities.
• Teams from NDRF, SDRF, and BPCL were deployed to manage the gas leak and transfer operations, which took over two hours.
• The incident occurred near the Adoshi tunnel in Raigad district, causing significant disruption and stranding around 165 buses.