July 1 (EUROPA PRESS) –
At least 25 people, including three children, have died this Saturday in western India after a bus driver lost control of the vehicle, causing it to crash into a road divider and go up in flames, according to the newspaper. Times of India’.
The accident occurred at around 1:30 a.m. (local time) on a road in the Buldhana district (in the state of Maharashtra), with 33 people on board the vehicle, police sources cited by the same media have reported.
The eight survivors, who managed to get out of the bus by breaking the rear window, have been taken to hospital.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he was “deeply saddened by the devastating bus mishap in Buldhana.” “My thoughts and prayers are with the families of those who lost their lives. May the injured recover soon,” the prime minister’s Twitter account posted.
Likewise, the Minister of the Interior, Amit Shah, has expressed through the same social network his “pain” for the “heartbreaking accident” and has conveyed his condolences to the relatives of the deceased, also assuring that “the Administration is providing treatment fast to the wounded”.
