Jharkhand: 5 charred to death as bus catches fire

Five people, including one women and a child, were burnt to death after a passenger bus caught fire on Sunday under Bishrampur police station area in Jharkhand’s Palamu district, around 160 km north of Ranchi.

Five people, including one women and a child, were burnt to death after a passenger bus caught fire on Sunday under Bishrampur police station area in Jharkhand’s Palamu district, around 160 km north of Ranchi.

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Police said that the bus was on way Aurangabad in Bihar from Raigarh in Chhattisgarh and caught fire after a high voltage electricity wire fell on it. Around 50 people managed to escape the burning bus.

The five ill fated people were electrocuted before the bus could come to halt.