Four persons, including a woman, were killed and more than 20 others injured when a speeding bus overturned in Madhya Pradesh's Sagar district on Saturday morning, an official said. Of the injured, three are critical, he said.
A bus carrying 40 passengers broke through the barrier of the Khalgat bridge and fell from a height of around 100 ft into the Narmada river in Dhar district of Madhya Pradesh on Monday. As per the latest reports, 12 bodies have been fished out and 15 people have so far been rescued from the accident site. Heavy machinery was deployed to drag the vehicle of the water. A team
Rescue work under way in Dabra
BHOPAL: Three migrant workers were killed and 12 others injured after an overcrowded bus overturned near Dabra in Gwalior district on Tuesday morning.
The bus was on its way to Tikamgarh in Madhya Pradesh from Sarai Kale Khan in Delhi.
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The injured persons were admitted to a government hospital in Gwalior.
Superintendent of police (SP) Amit Sanghi said there were more than 100 passengers in the bus. There were many children aboard.
Tikaram Ahirwar, a passenger on the bus, after the lockdown was imposed in Delhi he wanted to move out for a longer period.
The Madhya Pradesh bus crash shows that the accident pandemic is not waning
India’s Road Safety Month, launched on January 18 as an extended form of the annual Road Safety Week for greater impact, has concluded with a bus accident in Madhya Pradesh that has claimed 51 lives. The victims, including many young people reportedly travelling to Satna and Rewa to take a government recruitment examination, were trapped within the bus as it plunged into a swollen canal. One of many ghastly mishaps that have occurred after the COVID-19 lockdown, it lends grist to the view that the country, with the world’s worst record on road safety, cannot get its act together any time soon. India has, according to the just-released World Bank-commissioned report, Traffic Crash Injuries and Disabilities, 1% of the world’s vehicles but 11% of all road accident deaths; the Union Transport Ministry put the number of dead in 2019 at 1,51,113, and injured at 4,51,361. Those who suffer the most are from l