Buldhana: Twenty five bus passengers died after it caught fire on the Samruddhi Mahamarg Expressway in Maharashtra’s Buldhana district on Saturday, police said.
The private travel bus was on way from Nagpur to Pune when it hit a pole and then rammed into a divider around 1:30 am near Pimpalkhuta village. The bus turned turtle and caught fire, police said. As per the police officials, the driver who survived the accident said that it occurred after a tyre burst, leading to flames in the bus.
“25 bodies are extracted from the bus. A total of 32 people were travelling in the bus. 6–8 people are injured. The injured are being shifted to Buldhana Civil Hospital,” said Buldhana Police Deputy SP Baburao Mahamuni.
Expressing condolences to the deceased and their families in the unfortunate incident, Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde has announced an ex gratia of Rs. 5 lakh to the next kin of the deceased and free treatment for those injured in the accident from the Chief Minister’s relief fund. The CM also ordered a probe into the accident, which claimed many lives.
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