Six people were killed and nearly 20 injured after a bus hit a truck in the Maihar district of Madhya Pradesh on Saturday. The incident occurred around 11 pm when the bus was headed for Nagpur from Prayagraj. The bodies were retrieved from the bus after the collision near the Nadan Dehat police station, about 25 kilometres away from the district headquarters.
There were chances that the toll might rise, Maihar Superintendent of Police Sudhir Agrawal said. Senior officials reached the spot soon after getting information about the accident and launched a rescue operation.
In a similar incident, seven people including four children died and 14 suffered injuries after a bus jumped the road divider and hit three vehicles near Dwarka in Gujarat on Saturday evening, police said. The accident took place around 7:45 pm on National Highway 51 when the bus was heading from Dwarka to Ahmedabad.
The passenger bus jumped the divider as its driver tried to avoid hitting cattle on the road, and collided with a minivan, a car and a motorcycle coming from the opposite direction, said a local police official.
Those dead were identified as Hetalben Thakor (25), Tanya (2), Riyansh (3), Vishan (7), Priyanshi (13), Bhavnaben Thakor (35) and Chirag Ranabhai (25).