Tumkur: Three people died in a horrific road accident between a bus and an Omni car in Gubbi Taluk of Tumkur District here on Saturday morning.

The deceased have been identified as Raamayya (55), Vasanth Kumar (45), Narasamma (60). Three others have sustained injuries.

The collision between the car and the bus resulted in the Omni car catching fire. Soon, the fire spread across to the bus and 40 passengers onboard the bus had a lucky escape in the incident.

According to the reports the bus was heading towards Shimoga from Bengaluru when the incident took place. A case has been registered at Gubbi Police Station in this regard.

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Sabarkantha (Gujarat) (PTI): Six women were killed and eight other persons injured after a private bus crashed into a van on a highway in Gujarat's Sabarkantha district on Wednesday, police said.

The van was ferrying women from Modasa in Aravalli district when a speeding bus hit it from behind on National Highway 48 connecting Shamlaji to Himmatnagar in the district, Deputy Superintendent of Police A K Patel said.

According to police, the women were part of a catering team for social events. They were travelling from Modasa in the neighbouring Aravalli district to Hunj village in Himmatnagar to attend a function when they met with the accident.

Six women passengers of the van were killed, Patel said.

Seven other women and the van driver suffered injuries, according to police.

The injured persons were rushed to the Himmatnagar civil hospital. The condition of two of them was critical, the hospital's medical officer, Dr Dhrupad Chauhan, said.

The bodies were sent to a government hospital for a postmortem.