Surathkal: A 22-year-old woman along with her two-year-old son has been reported missing from Thadambail locality under the Surathkal Police Station limits.

The missing woman has been identified as Megha aka Balamma (22) and her two-year-old son.

Megha is reportedly a resident of Gadag district in Karnataka but was staying in Thadambail in Surathkal recently.

According to a complaint filed by her husband, Megha left his house with their son on April 8 when he asked her not to use her mobile phone extensively.

A case in this regard has been registered at Surathkal Police Station.

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Gurugram(PTI): At least nine people were burnt alive and 15 injured when a moving bus caught fire near Tauru in Haryana's Nuh district in the early hours of Saturday, police said.

The incident occurred around 2 am on the Kundli-Manesar-Palwal (KMP) Expressway. The bus was carrying around 60 people, all residents of Punjab's Hoshiarpur and Ludhiana, who were returning from pilgrim towns of Mathura and Vrindavan. All of them are relatives, police said.

"Nine people -- six women and three men -- were killed in the accident. Fifteen people were injured and have been hospitalised. All the injured are stable," said Inspector Jitendra Kumar, Station House Officer, Sadar Tauru.

"The cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained. A probe is underway," he said.

A local resident said that after noticing the fire, some people chased the bus on a motorcycle and asked the driver to stop. The locals also informed the police and fire department.