India, Nov. 19 -- Seventy-year-old Saraswati Puchla had come to the city for her brother's last rites, but in a tragic turn of events, before she could bid farewell to her brother at the Deonar crematorium on Monday, she died in an accident after a truck brushed her scooter.

According to the Shivaji Nagar police station, the deceased and two of her relatives were crossing Ahilyadevi Holkar Marg near the Shivaji Nagar bus depot in Govandi, when the incident took place. As the trio fell onto the road, the truck's rear tyre ran over one of the relative's arms and Puchla's head. "The woman was rushed to the Rajawadi hospital in Ghatkopar where she was declared dead," said a police officer, adding that the truck driver, Mohammad Siraj Shaikh,...