India, Dec. 15 -- Two colleagues, returning home in Mira Road after work, were killed after a truck hit them from behind and crushed their heads on the Western Express Highway (WEH) near Dahisar in the early hours of Sunday. The absconding truck driver was arrested from Gujarat later in the evening.

According to the police, the motorcyclist Zahir Amlani, 28, and the pillion rider Irshad Hussain were the employees of a private company in Malad West. They were heading home in Mira Road when the accident occurred around 1.40 am. When the duo reached the Dahisar Metro station stretch on WEH, a truck rammed their motorcycle from behind, throwing them onto the road. Both sustained fatal injuries after their heads were crushed under the truck's...