Bengaluru and Hyderabad: Bus collision blaze kills at least 20 in southern India
At least 20 people are dead after a fire sparked by a fuel leak following the collision of a bus and a motorcycle on the route between India’s southern tech cities of Bengaluru and Hyderabad.
“Of the 41 passengers, 21 have been rescued,” A Siri, a district revenue official, told news agency ANI.
“Among the remaining, the bodies of 11 have been identified so far.”
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The deadly collision comes after 22 passengers died in a bus fire in the northern state of Rajasthan on October 14.
While India is the world’s third-largest car market, it has some of the deadliest roads, with road accidents last year killing about 180,000 people, authorities said in January.
with DPA
