Maharashtra bus tragedy | Could come out of burning vehicle alive by breaking its window, say survivors

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 July 1 said they managed to come out of the burning vehicle by breaking its window.

Some of the survivors of the ill-fated bus that caught fire and led to the death of 26 passengers in Maharashtra's Buldhana district on July 1 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 a.m. 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.

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After hitting the divider, the bus overturned and fell on its right side with the entry/exit door facing the sky, they said.

"A tyre of the bus burst and the vehicle caught fire immediately. The blaze spread in no time," one of the survivors said.

"The passenger sitting next to me and I managed to escape by breaking the rear window," he said.

The survivor said that after the accident, teams of police and fire brigade reached the site quickly. Another survivor, Ayush Ghatge, said it was a miracle that he survived the horrific accident. He said he boarded the bus at Butibori, an industrial suburb of Nagpur.