India, Feb. 28 -- A 28-year-old driver of an aggregator cab was killed when industrial machinery weighing 40 tonnes crushed his vehicle after it broke free of its moorings and toppled along with the trailer transporting it on BPT Road in Wadala early on Friday.

Police said it took six hours for three cranes to shift the massive machine part and extract the driver from his mangled Ertiga. Mohammad Jamil Assaudhin Siddiqui had just dropped off a passenger in Sewri and was headed to Chembur when the accident took place at around 1.30 am. He was declared dead on arrival at KEM Hospital.

Wadala Police said the machine part had arrived at the Mumbai port and was being transported to a Surat-based factory when the accident took place.

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