Twenty-five dead after bus crashes and catches fire

Officials visit the crash site (Maharashtra state chief minister’s office/AP)

A burst tyre caused a bus to lose control, crash into a road divider and go up in flames – killing 25 people – in western India, police said.

Some 33 people were on the bus when the smash happened at about 1.30am on Saturday on a motorway in the Buldhana district of Maharashtra state, police officer Sunil Kadasne said.