10 pilgrims killed in bus accident

Jodhpur: Ten pilgrims were killed and 34 others injured, 16 of them seriously, when a bus carrying them collided head- on with a truck in Pali district on Sunday. The bus carrying pilgrims from different villages of Udaipur was returning from the shrine of Baba Ramdeo near Pokhran when the mishap took place, district magistrate ( Pali) Rohit Gupta said. “When the bus was passing through Manida village on the Pali- Udaipur bypass at about 6 am, it collided with a truck coming from the opposite direction”, said Mr Gupta. The accident took place as the driver of one of the vehicles dozed off at the wheel.