Reportedly the death toll in the accident of a private bus in Madhya Pradesh’s Maihar district has gone up to nine as three more persons succumbed to their injuries, police said on Sunday. Seven of the deceased hailed from neighboring Uttar Pradesh, they said. Nearly 20 persons were also injured after the bus rammed into a stationary stone-laden truck in Maihar around 11 pm on Saturday, they said. The accident occurred on National Highway 30, about 25 km from the district headquarters, police said.
Perhaps the bus started from Prayagraj with around 45 passengers and was heading for nagpur via Rewa when it crashed near the Nadan Dehat police station, Maihar Superintendent of police (SP) Sudhir Agrawal told. While six persons died on the spot, three more succumbed to their injuries at a hospital in Satna, taking the death toll to nine, he said. The deceased, all male, included a four year old boy, the official said.
Moreover seven bodies have been identified. Four deceased hailed from Jaunpur and three from Pratapgarh in Uttar Pradesh, Agrawal said, adding that efforts are on to identify the two other deceased. The post-mortem of four victims was being done in Maihar and three in Satna, where they breathed their last. The official said it appeared that the bus was speeding. Rescue teams had to use a gas cutter and an excavator machine to extricate passengers from the wreckage. Condoling the incident, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath said the loss of lives in the Maihar tragedy was painful.
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