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45 killed in HP bus accident
Shimla, November 4 The bus (HP-63-3774), which was carrying 55 passengers started from Kotighat near Kumarsain at 10.15 a.m. and met with the accident an hour later. While 44 persons were killed on the spot, another succumbed to his injuries in hospital. A two-and-a-half- year-old boy is untraceable. Twenty of the victims were coming here to attend a wedding. Fifteen of them belonged to Damod village and others to Kacheen Ghati village. Clothes, shoes and other belongings of the victims were strewn all over the place. Rescue teams comprising police, army, ITBP and Home Guard personnel and the locals extricated the bodies from the mangled remains of the vehicle. Some labourers working near Kanohar Nullah informed the police and others about the accident and helped the survivors. The injured, including two women, were rushed to Indira Gandhi Medical College (IGMC). The condition of one of them is reported to be critical. The government has ordered a magisterial inquiry and the ADM (Law and Order), Shimla, has been asked to submit his report in 15 days.
‘I was thrown out and held onto bushes’ Shimla, November 4 Lalita (25), hailing from Gullo village, said the driver was driving recklessly and the passengers requested him to be careful, but he did not pay heed. “The driver had the remote of the CD player in his hand when he lost control over the vehicle, resulting in the mishap”, she said. Lalita was on her way to HP University and had boarded the bus at
Theog. “I was thrown out of the bus and held onto bushes for about 20 minutes till I was rescued by labourers,” she said at Indira Gandhi Medical College where she was admitted. Her father, R.S. Thakur, said it was at about 11.30 a.m that he got
a call from a mobile phone that his daughter had met with an accident. Another survivor, Anita, boarded the bus at Fagu along with her husband, Dhyan Singh, and sister.While her husband survived, her sister died. “It was the sheer carelessness of the driver which resulted in the accident as the bus steered from one end of the road to the other as people screamed”, she said. List of 42 deceased and 4 injured in the HP accident Shimla, November 4 Four of the five injured are Dayal Singh and his wife, Anita of Kufarfaila village, Narender of Chaid village, and Lalita Thakur of Gallu.
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