NAVI MUMBAI: A Good Samaritan who on Sunday volunteered to help victims of a landslide on Mumbai-Pune expressway himself became a victim of a hit-and-run case.

Ganpat Kudpane (32), a resident of Khopoli, rushed to the accident site to help the victims after the landslide.

However, in a tragic incident, he was hit by a speeding car and was killed.

The car sped away towards Panvel after hitting Ganpat and leaving him on the spot.

The Khopoli police have registered a case of rash and negligent driving causing death against the driver.

He was one of the three people killed in the major landslide near Adoshi tunnel on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway, 41km from Kalamboli, at 11.45am on Sunday.

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Two others who died in the accident included Dilip Patel (55) and Shashikant Dhamankar (50), who were driving their cars, when huge boulders came crashing down.

Five members of the Patel family from Bhayander were headed to Pune in a Skoda while three members of the Dhamankar family from Dombivli were travelling in an Indigo Manza to Mumbai when huge boulders fell from the periphery along the Mumbai lane and also rolled over to the Pune carriageway.