3 killed, 17 injured as buses collide in Kurali

MOHALI: Three passengers were killed in a head-on collision between two buses at Kurali in Mohali district, police said on Monday.

The dead include a woman. As many as 17 passengers were also injured in the accident that occurred when a Haryana Roadways bus crashed into a private bus, carrying devotees of Radha Soami Satsang Beas, on Sunday midnight.

Police registered a case of rash driving and causing death by negligence against Mukesh Kumar, the driver of the Haryana Roadways bus, as passengers complained he was speeding.

They said he lost control of the vehicle and collided with the private bus while overtaking a car. The Haryana Roadways bus was on its way from Baijnath in Himachal Pradesh’s Kangra district to Faridabad, while the private bus was headed to Jalandhar from Solan, where its devotees had attended a spiritual discourse at Radha Soami Satsang Beas earlier in the day.

The deceased were identified as Kulwant Singh, 70, and Balkar Chand, 68, both from Jalandhar, and Ranjana, 35, a resident of Kangra.