Six tourists from Bengal killed, 40 injured as bus turns turtle in Odisha
India Today
A tourist bus from West Bengal bound for Vizag overturned at Odisha's Kalinga Ghat on the Ganjam-Kandhamal border, leaving six dead and several injured.
At least six tourists from West Bengal, four of them women, were killed and 40 injured when the bus they were travelling in turned turtle at a spot near the border between Ganjam and Kandhamal districts of Odisha as it was travelling to the port city of Vizag.
The passenger bus with 77 people, including about 65 tourists on board, late on Tuesday night rolled over at Kalinga Ghat. Among those injured, 15 people are in serious condition, the police said on Wednesday, adding. Ganjam SP Brijesh Ray said one of them has been shifted to SCB Medical College in Cuttack as his condition worsened, he said .
The ill-fated bus from West Bengal's Hooghly district, was moving towards Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh from Daringibandi in Kandhamal district of Odisha when the mishap took place, the police chief said, adding that police and firefighters from nearby Bhanjangar and G Udaygiri rushed to the spot to rescue the passengers. Of the six person killed in the tourist bus mishap, five bodies were found after the overturned vehicle was pulled up using a crane, the SP said.
It had successfully crossed major portion of the Ghat road, but lost control at the last turning due to brake failure. I could not stop the bus and it dashed against a post at a speed before making several turns, an unhurt bus driver told reporters.
The body of one tourist who died in the mishap were retrieved after breaking the window panes of the bus, Bhanjanagar sub divisional police officer S S Mishra said. The dead are Supiya Denre (33), Sanjeet Patra (33), Rima Denre (22), her mother Mausumi Denre and Barnali Manna(34) from Sultanpur in Howrah district and Swapan Gushait (44), the cook from Gopalpur in Hooghly, police said.
The seriously injured were admitted to MKCG Medical College and Hospital here and Bhanjanagar sub divisional hospital. The condition of at least ten persons who are being treated at the medical college hospital was stated by its doctors to be serious, police said.
Sources said the tourists had reached Daringbadi on Tuesday. After spending the entire day in the hill town they left for Visakhapatnam at about 11.30 pm after dinner. The accident happened about an hour's journey from Daringbadi.
