Nine people were killed after a sleeper bus caught fire following a collision with a truck on NH-48 in Karnataka’s Chitradurga district early on Christmas Day.
In a tragic reminder of the dangers faced by municipal workers, a speeding bus carrying a marriage party mowed down three sanitation workers near the Pooja Talkies stretch in Dhanbad district of Jharkhand.
One bus was travelling from Mananthavady to Payyanur and the other bus was going to Mananthavady.
The state government has ordered a magisterial inquiry into the Tehri accident.
