<p>A Pune techie died after falling from a zipline tower at an adventure park in Bhor tehsil of <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/mumbai/mumbai-news/article/maharashtra-five-years-on-punes-rs-2-cr-e-toilets-lie-idle-23521094" target="_blank" rel="none noopener"><strong>Pune district in Maharashtra</strong></a>, the police said on Monday, reported the PTI.</p>
<p>The woman IT professional was identified as a 28-year-old Taral Atpalkar, an official said.</p>
<p>The police are investigating whether there was any negligence by the operators at the adventure park.</p>
<p>According to the PTI, the incident occurred on Friday at the Rajgad Water Park Resort in Bhor tehsil when tTaral Atpalkar was preparing to begin her zipline activity.</p>
<p>"She climbed onto a small iron stool while attempting to attach a safety hook to the zipline railing. However, the stool slipped, causing her to lose balance and fall onto another railing about 30 feet below," a police officer said, as per the PTI.</p>
<p>She was rushed to a hospital, where she was declared dead on arrival, the officer added.</p>
<p>A zipline is a cable or rope stretched between two points of different heights, down which a person slides for amusement using a suspended harness, pulley or handle.</p>
<p>Atpalkar, a resident of Dhayri area in Pune district, was accompanied to the resort by her family, <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/mumbai/mumbai-crime-news/article/maharashtra-thane-police-books-12-for-power-theft-in-district-23523827" target="_blank" rel="none noopener"><strong>police</strong></a> said, the news agency reported.</p>
<p><strong>3 killed, 12 injured as truck hits multiple vehicles on highway in Pune</strong></p>
<p>Meanwhile, in an another incident, as many as three persons were killed and 12 others were injured after a truck crashed into five vehicles on the old Pune-Mumbai highway near Lonavala hill station near Pune in Maharashtra, the police said on Monday, reported PTI.</p>
<p>The incident took place at 10.20 pm on Sunday at Battery Hill near Bor Ghat, the officials said.&nbsp;</p>
<p>The truck apparently suffered a brake failure while descending a slope. It then ran amok and hit five vehicles on the way, a police official said.</p>
<p>"A 10-year-old girl and her father, who were travelling in a car, and another person died in the <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/mumbai/mumbai-news/article/accident-victims-in-maharashtra-to-receive-cashless-treatment-up-to-rs-1-lakh-23522022" target="_blank" rel="none noopener"><strong>accident</strong></a>," Lonavla police station's senior inspector Suhas Jagtap told PTI.</p>
<p>Twelve other persons were injured and rushed to a nearby hospital where they were currently undergoing treatment, he added.</p>
<p>Further investigations are underway, police said.</p>
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