Jamshedpur: Over 20 injured as bus overturns in Jharia

Mail News Service

Jamshedpur, April 7: More than 20 people were injured after a bus carrying passengers from Jamshedpur to Bhagalpur overturned in Jharia late Wednesday night.

Sources said the mishap occurred around 1.15 am near Indira Chowk in Jharia. The air conditioned bus had set out from Jamshedpur in the evening and was crossing Dhanbad on the Jamshedpur-Deoghar-Bhagalpur route. The bus driver, conductor and cleaner escaped from the scene, leaving the passengers in the lurch. The officer in-charge of Jharia police station PK Jha and other police officials reached the scene on getting information from commuters and sent the passengers to local nursing home and hospital.

Sources said an auto-rickshaw and a jeep were crushed under the bus and their drivers were seriously injured in the incident. They were sent to a Dhanbad hospital by local residents.