Bengaluru(PTI): As many as 29 passengers were injured when a Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation bus crashed into a Metro Rail pillar at Kengeri in the city in the wee hours of Monday, police said.

The condition of four people is said to be serious.

According to police, the bus was coming from Madikeri, the district headquarter town of Kodagu and the driver lost control of the vehicle near a petrol pump and crashed into the Metro Rail pillar.

A case of negligent and rash driving has been registered against the bus driver.

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Udupi: Brahmavar Police have filed a case and are investigating into the death of a worker while cleaning an open well at Devadigara Bettu, behind the Mahalingeshwara Temple on Wednesday evening.

Two men were working at clearing the slush inside the 35-foot-deep well using bleaching powder, when one of the workers, 34-year-old Durgesh, developed breathing problems for want of oxygen and died of asphyxiation.

The local fire brigade staff members rescued the second worker, 50-year-old Adiveppa Kuri from the well. Both the workers, Kuri and Durgesh, were reportedly natives of Koppal district and were currently living in Salikere of Brahmavar taluk.