Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan met victim s families. (Photo/twitter)
MP CM meets families of Sidhi bus mishap victims, provides aid of Rs 7 lakh each ANI | Updated: Feb 18, 2021 11:12 IST
Sidhi (Madhya Pradesh) [India], February 18 (ANI): Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Wednesday met the families of the victims of a bus accident, which occurred in Madhya Pradesh s Sidhi area, and provided Rs 7 lakh ex-gratia announced by the state and the Centre earlier.
The Chief Minister also express condolences to the families of the victims and assured them that the government is committed to their betterment. I am meeting with the families of victims of an unfortunate bus accident that was occurred in Sidhi. These kinds of incidents shake a person from inside. We cannot bring them back who has gone, but we will leave no stone unturned to support the family, Shivraj said in a tweet.
The injured have been admitted to a hospital, said ASP Gajendra Singh Kanwar. On dead after bus overturned in Bamhani area of Mandla district, Madhya Pradesh | Photo Credit: ANI
Mandla, Madhya Pradesh: At least one person died and more than 12 people were injured after the bus they were travelling in lost control and overturned in Bamhani area of Mandla district in Madhya Pradesh on Thursday, said a senior police official. The injured have been admitted to a hospital, said ASP Gajendra Singh Kanwar.
The accident comes days after 51 people were killed in a road accident in Madhya Pradesh s Sidhi district. The efforts to trace three persons, who went missing after the bus plunged into a canal two days ago failed to yield any result on Thursday, an official said.
The bus was heading towards Satna from Sidhi district.
BHOPAL: At least 47 people were killed when a packed passenger bus veered off the road and plunged into a canal in Madhya Pradesh’s Sidhi district on Tuesday morning. Most of the victims were found dead in their seats.
The suddenness of the crash left a slim window of survival only six passengers could get out alive. Four are reported missing. This is the worst road accident in MP in terms of toll. Twenty of those killed are women most of them were going to attend an auxiliary-nurse-midwife exam in Satna. The other victims were their companions, mostly brothers and fathers. Two children are among the dead.