Mumbai: Twelve blackbucks died and two were injured when they jumped off a road bridge in Solapur district in Maharashtra, a police official said on Sunday.
The accident occurred at approximately 6:30 p.m. on Saturday at a bridge in Kegaon on the Solapur-Bijapur highway, which is about 44 kilometres from here.
"The blackbucks fell to the ground from a height of 30 feet. Twelve died while two injured blackbucks were rushed to a nearby hospital run by the forest department. Local residents alerted police and forest department officials," he said.—Inputs from Agencies