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Agence France-Presse

At least 25 people were killed and eight others injured after a bus caught fire overnight on an expressway in western India on Saturday, police said.
The bus was travelling to the city of Pune when it hit a pole and overturned after midnight, causing its diesel tank to catch fire, senior police officer Baburao Mahamuni said.
“There were about 30-35 people in the bus. Twenty-five people have died and eight others are injured,” he said.
The injured, including the bus driver, have been admitted to a hospital near the site of the crash in Maharashtra state, about 400km east of India’s financial capital Mumbai.
Police said they had launched an inquiry into the crash.
“The priority at this moment is to identify the bodies and hand them over to their family members,” local media quoted police superintendent Sunil Kadasane as saying.
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Images showed the bus engulfed in flames and later the charred remains of the vehicle overturned on the highway.
Three children were among the dead, a police officer told reporters.
“Deeply saddened by the devastating bus mishap in Buldhana,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Twitter.
“My thoughts and prayers are with the families of those who lost their lives. May the injured recover soon.”
Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde said he felt “deep grief” over the accident and pledged compensation of 500,000 rupees (US$6,100) to the families of those killed.


Accidents are common on India’s vast network of roads, which are poorly maintained and notoriously dangerous.
The main causes are excessive speed, not wearing helmets – sales of two-wheelers far outstrip those of cars – and not using seat belts.
India accounts for 11 per cent of the global road death toll despite having just one per cent of the world’s vehicles, according to a World Bank report released in 2021.
The same report estimated 150,000 car crash fatalities in India annually, or one person every four minutes.
At least 26 dead in India’s northern state after bus falls into gorge
It added that road crashes cost the Indian economy around US$75 billion each year, with medical expenses and loss of income driving many accident survivors into poverty.
In May, at least 21 people died when a bus veered off a bridge in India, reportedly after the driver fell asleep at the wheel.
And last October, at least 31 people were killed after a bus carrying wedding guests veered off the road and fell into a deep gorge in northern India.


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25 dead after India bus crashes into pole and catches fire in Maharashtra

The bus was travelling to the western city of Pune when it hit a pole and overturned on a highway, causing its diesel tank to catch fire. Photo: AFP

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The site of the train collision in Odisha, India. Photo: Reuters

A destroyed train car left at the site of a deadly multiple-train crash in the eastern Indian state of Odisha. Photo: Kyodo

A train moves past damaged coaches, after the tracks were restored, at the site of a train collision following the accident in Balasore district in the eastern state of Odisha, India, on Monday. Photo: Reuters

Recovery operations continue on Sunday, two days after a deadly multiple-train crash in the eastern Indian state of Odisha. Photo: Kyodo

At least 44 people dead after Indian bus plunges into deep gorge

A woman attends to her injured child receiving treatment at a hospital in Kullu, in the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. Photo: AP

The remains of a bus carrying some 50 passengers are seen after it fell into a 150-metre (500-foot) gorge near Banjar, in the mountainous Kullu district of the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh on June 20, 2019. - At least 25 passengers were killed and 35 injured on June 20 after their vehicle fell in a gorge in a mountainous region of India's northern Himachal Pradesh state, officials said. The private bus was filled with more than 60 people, some of them sitting on the roof, when it plunged into a 150-metre (500-foot) deep gorge in Kullu district of the Himalayan state. (Photo by STR / AFP)

At least 26 dead in India’s northern state after bus falls into gorge

The death toll has risen to 26 after a bus fell into a gorge in India’s northern state of Uttarakhand with 30 people on board, with four of those rescued in critical condition, a police official said on Monday. Photo/Siddharth Agarwal

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The vehicle was travelling to Pune when it hit a pole and overturned on a highway, causing its diesel tank to catch fire
Police said three children were among the dead, adding an inquiry was launched into the crash


The vehicle was travelling to Pune when it hit a pole and overturned on a highway, causing its diesel tank to catch fire.


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