After tyre burst, car hits ST bus claiming 5 of its occupants in Rajkot

NE NEWS SERVICE
RAJKOT, NOV 23

Five persons were killed and eleven injured on Tuesday when a car collided with a state transport bus after jumping a divider on the national highway near Gondal in Gujarat’s Rajkot district, police said.

Two children in the car are critically injured, while nine passengers of the bus sustained minor wounds, a Gondal rural police station official said.

“The car was going towards Gondal and lost balance after a tyre burst near Biliya village. The car jumped the median on the national highway, went to the opposite lane and dashed into an ST bus,” he said.

Five car occupants, including three women and two men, died on the spot, he informed.