42 dead in Indian bus crash inferno

A bus has crashed into a highway barrier in southern India and erupted in flames, killing 42 passengers – many of them burned alive in the inferno, officials said.

42 dead in Indian bus crash inferno

A bus has crashed into a highway barrier in southern India and erupted in flames, killing 42 passengers – many of them burned alive in the inferno, officials said.

The driver and six others managed to escape through a window, deputy police inspector general Naveen Kumar Chand said. The other passengers, apparently asleep at the time of the crash, were trapped inside.

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