"Came Out By Breaking Windows": Maharashtra Bus Crash Survivors
NDTV
The private sleeper coach bus, which was travelling from Nagpur to Pune, met with an accident at Pimpalkhuta village near Sindkhedraja on the Samruddhi Expressway as it rammed into a road divider.
Some of the survivors of the ill-fated bus that caught fire and led to the death of 25 passengers in Maharashtra's Buldhana district on Saturday, said they managed to come out of the burning vehicle by breaking its window.
The private sleeper coach bus, which was travelling from Nagpur to Pune, met with an accident at Pimpalkhuta village near Sindkhedraja on the Samruddhi Expressway as it rammed into a road divider around 1.30 am on Saturday. Of the 33 passengers travelling on the bus, 25 were charred to death, police said.
Eight others, including the bus driver and its cleaner, survived, they said.
After hitting the divider, the bus overturned and fell on its right side with the entry/exit door facing the sky, they said.
