Tag: Bus Accident

Agra: At least 29 people were killed on Monday when a passenger bus fell into a gorge on the Agra-Lucknow Expressway. The bus, after hitting the divider, fell into the 40-feet-deep gap between two flyovers on the Yamuna Expressway near Milestone 161 (Jharna nallah) under Etmadpur police jurisdiction of Agra district at around 4.15 a.m. […]

Peshawar: At least 24 people, including women and children, were killed when a bus carrying them fell in a ditch in northwest Pakistan, police said The incident occurred when the bus, carrying 35 passengers, was going to Kandia from Bagru of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. “All 24 people belonging to the same tribe drowned when […]

Islamabad: At least 26 people were killed and a dozen others were injured in a passenger bus accident on in Pakistan’s Gilgit-Baltistan region on Sunday, police said. The accident took place on the Babusar Pass in Diamer district. The bus was en route to Rawalpindi from Skardu, Dawn news quoted Diamer police spokesperson Mohammad Wakeel […]

Nayagarh/Cuttack: A man was killed and 17 others including his wife and son were injured in two separate road mishaps that took place this afternoon in Nayagarh and Cuttack districts. A resident of Tentulipali village was killed while his wife and son sustained critical injuries after their scooter hit a roadside tree at Kachrapali under […]

Nayagarh/Jharsuguda: At least one person was killed while nine others sustained injuries in two separate road mishaps in Jharsuguda and Nayagarh districts today. A speeding truck reportedly hit a car near Mahima Chhak under Belpahar Police limits in Jharsuguda district killing the owner of the car. Another person in the car, who sustained critical injuries […]

Kathmandu: At least 14 passengers were killed and 16 others injured in a bus accident on Sunday in Nepal’s Sindhupalchowk district, authorities confirmed. Ganesh Khanal, a spokesperson at district police office Sindhupalchowk, told Xinhua news agency that 12 passengers died on the spot, while the two others succumbed to their injuries in a hospital. According […]

Jammu: Seven people were killed and 24 injured, some of them critically, when a bus skidded off the road and rolled down into a deep gorge in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district on Thursday, police said. The bus was on its way from Surankote to Jammu when the accident happened at Siot-Lambari in Rajouri district, […]

Junagadh: Six persons were killed and at least 20 others injured after a private bus in which they were travelling overturned in Junagadh district of Gujarat on Saturday, police said. The mishap occurred at Lalpur village in Visavadar taluka in the afternoon, police said. “The private bus was on its way to Junagadh from Savarkundla […]

Ganjam: In a tragic incident, 8 persons were killed and over 40 got injured after a bus skidded off a bridge near Palukhola in Taptapani Ghat of the district. The injured have been rushed to Digapahandi and Berhampur Hospital. Patapur Police and fire services personnel are engaged in rescue operation. As per reports, the ill-fated […]

Konark: One person was killed while 20 others were injured after a passenger bus hit another bus near Konark Eco Retreat festival venue on Puri-Konark Marine Drive road in Puri district on Thursday. According to reports, a passenger bus which was going to Puri hit another tourist bus from behind. The driver of the passenger […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha government today suspended four officials- two each from Berhampur Electrical Division and Rural Development Department on charges of dereliction in duty that led to the death of ten persons in the fatal accident at Mendarajpur Junction under Rangeilunda block in Ganjam district on Sunday. Following a preliminary inquiry, State Energy Minister Dibyashankar Mishra […]

Bhadrak: A pilgrimage trip turned into a nightmare for nearly 50 people from Uttar Pradesh, after their bus en route to Puri collided with a paddy-laden truck near Bhadrak in the early hours on Wednesday, killing two persons and leaving at least 40 others injured. According to reports, the bus was carrying the pilgrims from […]

Kota (Rajasthan): Twenty-four people were killed and five more sustained injuries after a private bus carrying a wedding party fell into a river on the Kota-Dausa highway in Bundi district on Wednesday morning, police said. The bus, with at least 29 people on board, was headed to Sawai Madhopur from Kota when its driver Shyam […]

Phulbani/Bhubaneswar: A bus ferrying Odia workers from Surat met with an accident near Andharkote in Kalinga Ghat on Kandhamal-Ganjam border of the State today evening. The mishap reportedly killed one person at the site while another person injured during the accident succumbed at a hospital. G Udaygiri SDPO, Jaykrushna Behera said, “Police, fire services personnel, […]

Maharashtra: As many as five persons were injured after the bus ferrying migrants from Surat to Odisha’s Ganjam district overturned near Karanja on Nagpur-Amravati National Highway (NH) in Maharashtra on Sunday. All the injured including two bus staff and three migrants have been admitted to the nearby Karanja hospital in Maharashtra, said sources. The bus […]