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A tourist bus carrying 76 passengers from Udayanarayanpur area in Howrah’s Howrah, which had left Kandhamal’s Daringibari area on Tuesday afternoon, crashed in Odisha’s Kalinga Valley. Six people have died in this.
Odisha ( Odisha At least six people, including four women from West Bengal, were killed when a tourist bus overturned near the Ganjam-Kandhamal border in the Kalinga Valley late on Tuesday night.West Bengal Death) died and 40 others were injured. The injured have been admitted to a local hospital, where they are undergoing medical treatment. Police said that Udaynarayanpur area in Howrah, Bengal (Howrah UdaynarayanpurThe tourist bus carrying 76 passengers had left Kandhamal’s Daringibari area on Tuesday afternoon and was on its way to Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh. After receiving the information about the heart-breaking death, there is mourning in Udaynarayanpur, Howrah.
According to media reports, Inspector Dhiresh Das of Bhanjnagar police station said, “At around 11.30 pm, the driver of the bus lost control of his brakes at a turn of the mountain road and the bus overturned, after which 6 people were crushed to death. . At least 15 were seriously injured, while 16 others received minor injuries.”
Six Howrah tourists killed in bus accident
Odisha | Six people were killed & over 40 injured after a bus overturned near Kalinga Ghat in Ganjam last night
Tourists from West Bengal were returning from Daringbadi. It must have happened due to brake failure or the driver is new to ghat road: Pradhan, Fire Officer pic.twitter.com/nHs6Gh0FXM
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Five of the six dead have been identified, they are Supriya Denre, Sanjit Patra, Reema Denre, Moushumi Denra and Barnali Manna. The deceased cook has not been identified. Soon after the accident, fire brigade personnel reached the spot and pulled out the passengers from the overturned bus. Later, local youths and police helped the injured to be taken to the hospital.
Horrific bus accident near Kalinga Ghat
Police say that if the accident had happened a little above Ghat Road, more people could have been injured. A police officer said, “The accident happened at the end of the ghat roads, so the casualties were limited. Had it fallen into the abyss, it would have proved disastrous.” The bus carrying about 77 passengers, including 40 men, 30 women and some children, was returning from Phulbani (Orissa) to Visakhapatnam when the vehicle lost control of the brakes near Kalinga Ghat. The driver failed to steer the bus amid difficult turns in the ghat and it rammed into an electric pole before turning into a ditch. Doctors said that the condition of the seriously injured is stable.
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