6 killed after bus carrying kanwariyas collides with truck in Jharkhand

The bus collided with a truck loaded with cooking gas cylinders in Jharkhand's Deoghar district.

Updated on: Jul 29, 2025, 13:01:51 IST

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At least 6 kanwariyas were killed and several others were injured after a bus they were travelling in collided with a truck loaded with cooking gas cylinders in Jharkhand's Deoghar district.

The accident took place at around 4:30am near the Jamuniya forest, within the Mohanpur Police Station limits.

"Six devotees were killed and 24 others injured in the accident at Jamuniya Chowk in Deoghar. Eight of the 24 injured have been shifted to AIIMS, Deoghar, while the remaining are undergoing treatment at Sadar Hospital," Deoghar deputy commissioner Naman Priyesh Lakra said.

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Inspector General (Dumka Zone) Shailendra Kumar Sinha told PTI that the accident occurred after the bus with Kanwariyas on board collided head-on with the truck transporting gas cylinders.

Meanwhile, Godda MP Nishikant Dubey claimed that 18 people died in the road accident.

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“In my Lok Sabha constituency of Deoghar, 18 devotees lost their lives in a tragic accident involving a bus and a truck during the Kanwar Yatra in the holy month of Shravan,” Godda MP Nishikant Dubey wrote in a post on X. “ May Baba Baidyanath give strength to their families to bear this grief.”

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