Tag: Bus Accident

Jaipur: At least 30 people were killed and 15 injured when a passenger bus fell into a river on Saturday near Rajasthan’s Sawai Madhopur, police said. The Sawai Madhopur-Lalsot bus was driven by a 16-year-old conductor who lost control due to over-speeding, officials said. The bus skidded and fell off a bridge into the Banas […]

Jammu: At least 16 pilgrims on their way to the Amarnath shrine were killed and 20 others injured on Sunday when a bus carrying them plunged into a gorge near Banihal town in Jammu and Kashmir’s Ramban district. Police sources said the bus carrying the pilgrims from Jammu to the hill shrine spun out of […]

Shimla: At least 40 people were missing when a bus fell into a river in Himachal Pradesh’s Shimla district on Wednesday, police said. The private bus was on its way to Tunni village in Shimla district, from Vikas Nagar in neighbouring Uttarakhand, when it skidded off the road and fell into the Tons river. The […]

Cuttack: At least 15 persons were injured after a bus they were travelling in lost control and smashed into a truck from behind near Jagatpur-Manguli road on NH-16 in Cuttack district today. As per reports, the victims were rescued by the locals and rushed to a nearby hospital. Five of the injured including the bus […]

Kathmandu: A bus carrying college students and their teachers back from an educational trip veered off a mountainous road and lunged into a ravine in Nepal, killing 23 people and injuring 14 others. The fatal crash occurred on Friday when the bus was returning from Kapurkot in Salyan district. According to the District Police Office, […]

Angul: More than 30 passengers have been injured after a bus collided with a truck on NH-149 near Gotamara under Banarpal police limits in the district late Tuesday night. Sources said 60 passengers were travelling in the private bus from Thakurhat area in Kendrapara district to Rourkela for picnicking and visiting various tourist destinations in […]

Cuttack: Nearly ten persons, including 3 women, were killed after a bus travelling from Talcher to Cuttack fell off a bridge into the Mahanadi River bed in Cuttack yesterday evening. Out of the 50 injured who were admitted to SCB following the mishap, 7 are in the ICU and 35 have been admitted to the […]

Phulbani: In a tragic incident, at least ten persons including women and children were killed and many others sustained critical injuries after a mini-truck they were travelling in skidded off Bangadadua Ghat into a deep gorge near Brahmanigaon in Phulbani area. As per latest reports, CM Naveen Patnaik announced ex-gratia of Rs 2 lakh to […]

Sambalpur/Keonjhar: In an unfortunate incident, two persons were killed and many others including elderly women and children sustained injuries after a bus they were travelling in collided head-on with a tanker near Kayakuda on Sambalpur-Rairakhol road. The deceased have been identified as residents of Balichandrapur area in Jajpur. According to sources, the mishap occurred last […]

Sambalpur/Keonjhar: At least 35 persons sustained injuries in separate road mishaps in Sambalpur and Keonjhar district on Tuesday. As per reports, ten persons were injured after the bus in which they were travelling overturned near Beheranbasa area in Jujumura of Sambalpur district. The mishap occurred when the private bus was en route to Kesapali from […]

Thane: Four passengers were killed and 45 others injured Sunday when their bus fell into a gorge in Maharashtra’s Palghar district, an official said. The incident occurred at around 2:45 pm in Torangane ghat between Mokhada and Trimbakeshwar villages, said Thane Region Disaster Management Cell (RDMC) chief Santosh Kadam. The private bus had started from Nashik […]

Lucknow: At least seven people were killed and 34 others injured on Sunday when a Varanasi-bound passenger bus collided head-on with a truck in Uttar Pradesh’s Mainpuri district, police said. Rakesh Pandey, the incharge of the Karhal police station, said: “The accident took place on the Agra Lucknow Expressway while the bus, en route to […]

Shimla: Ten people, including three women, were killed and 25 injured when a private bus they were travelling in fell into a 200-foot-deep gorge in Himachal Pradesh’s Chamba district on Saturday night, the police said. The accident occurred on the Dalhousie-Pathankot road near Banikhet in Dalhousie sub-division after the driver lost control of the vehicle […]

Dubai: Repatriation of the bodies of the Indian victims in Thursday’s horrific bus accident in Dubai was finally completed on Sunday. The repatriation of 11 Indians was complete with the last three bodies flown to Mumbai on an Air India flight that left from Dubai at 3.39 a.m. on Sunday, an official told Gulf News. […]

Shimla: At least 32 people were killed and 28 others severely injured when an overloaded bus fell into a deep drain in Kullu district of Himachal Pradesh on Thursday, officials said. The private bus (bearing registration number HP 66-7065) fell into the over 300-metre-deep nullah near the Dhoth Morh in Banjar tehsil of the district, […]