The bus, which had passengers on board heading towards Khatu Shyam temple in Rajasthan from Madhya Pradesh, witnessed a tragic accident wherein the driver lost control over the bus. A horrific road tragedy claimed eight lives and injured over six others on Saturday after a passenger bus overturned on the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway near Kota, Rajasthan.
In another highway accident on Thursday, two people lost their lives while three others were rescued after the taxi met with an accident falling off in the gorge near Pali Pulia on Rishikesh-Badrinath National Highway in Uttarakhand. As per the reports of Kota district collector Peeyush Samariya, eight bodies were rushed to the medical center by emergency respondents. After the accident, rope and cliff rescue operations have been performed by the local police and the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) to find the crashed vehicle. Route of the vehicle : The accident occurred in a taxi originating from Chandigarh with five people aboard.
The local police and rescue teams controlled the accident scene, and all the injured people were taken to the hospitals, where they were provided with urgent treatment, according to Station House Officer (SHO) Nand Singh.
