Seven feared charred to death as bus catches fire in Kalaburagi district
Kalaburagi, Jun 3: Seven people travelling in a private bus are feared to have been charred to death in a road accident near Kamalapura town here during the early hours on Friday, police said.
The fire was following an accident between the bus and a tempo trax.
The bus was carrying 29 passengers from Goa to Hyderabad.
According to police sources, 22 passengers managed to escape from the bus that was completely charred due to fire.
The injured have been shifted to various hospitals in Kalaburagi and are undergoing treatment.
The driver of the tempo trax is also severely injured, sources said.
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Fire in Delhi's Paschim Vihar claims one life, two injured
New Delhi (PTI): A woman was killed and two others were injured after a fire broke out in a residential flat in Paschim Vihar area, an official of Delhi Fire Services said on Monday.
The incident occurred in the new slum flats in Paschim Puri area.
"The fire department received the call at approximately 10:27 pm and dispatched three fire tenders to the scene. The fire, confined to domestic articles in a second-floor flat of the ground-plus-three-storey building, was brought under control," said Delhi Fire Services (DFS) chief Atul Garg.
The DFS chief said the firefighters found the charred body of a woman in the flat.
Her identity is yet to be confirmed. The body was handed over to police for further investigation, he added.
Two others were rescued by the DFS team with burns and were immediately rushed to Acharya Bhikshu Hospital.
The cause of the fire is being investigated.
