15 DIE AS BUS WITH WORKERS GOING HOME FOR DIWALI RAMS INTO TRUCK

BHOPAL: Fifteen people died and 40 others sustained injuries after a bus, mostly carrying labourers going home for Diwali, collided with a truck in Madhya Pradesh’s Rewa district, police said on Saturday.

The accident took place on National Highway-30 around 11.30 pm on Friday, when the sleeper bus, carrying 120 passengers in a 40-seater, was heading towards Uttar Pradesh’s Gorakhpur from Hyderabad. According to the police, the bus was negotiating a mountain road in Sohagi ghati, about 70 km from the district headquarters, when the driver lost control and rammed into the trailer-truck from behind.

The impact of the crash was so severe that the bodies of the bus driver and conductor had to be pulled out from the vehicle with the help of gas cutters.→P4