20120519 India India bus explodes after collision with truck, 16 killed
India May 18 2012 “Automobile & Railway”
Dead : dead more than 10 Burnout : 0 or unknown Injured : injured more than 10
India bus explodes after collision with truck, 16 killed
Updated: 2012-05-20
LUCKNOW (AFP) – Some 16 people died when a bus carrying Muslim pilgrims exploded in a ball of fire after colliding head-on with a truck in northern India, officials said on Saturday.
The bus, which was en route to the Muslim shrine of Ajmer Sharif, slammed into a truck parked on a road near Bahraich town, 105km from the Uttar Pradesh state capital Lucknow on Friday, district officials said.
‘Sixteen people died in the blaze that followed the impact of the collision between the bus and the truck,’ Bahraich district magistrate Kinjal Singh told AFP.
Two of the dead were babies while 19 other people were injured in the crash.
Straits Times
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