In Maharashtra, seventeen persons died and 16 others were injured in a road accident in Sillod Tehsil of Aurangabad on Thursday evening. The accident took place when the driver of the bus lost balance as the steering wheel snapped and the bus fell into a road side deep well. The ill-fated bus of Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation was on its way to Aurangabad from Buldhana. The injured were admitted to the Government Medical College Hospital in Aurangabad.