Five passengers including a woman were killed and over two dozen were injured after a private bus fell into a drain in Punjab’s Faridkot district on Tuesday, officials said.<\/p>\n
The accident occurred on the Faridkot-Kotkapura road at around 8 am when the bus carrying 36 passengers was going from Muktsar to Amritsar, they said.<\/p>\n
The bus plunged into the drain from a 10-feet high bridge after it collided with a truck, officials said.<\/p>\n
Five people have died in the incident, Faridkot Senior Superintendent of Police Pragya Jain told PTI over the phone.<\/p>\n
Of those killed, four were residents of Muktsar district, said officials.<\/p>\n
They said 26 passengers were admitted to the Guru Gobind Singh Medical College and Hospital in Faridkot.<\/p>\n
Of the injured, two have been referred to another hospital in Amritsar. One of them lost an arm in the accident.<\/p>\n
Punjab Assembly Speaker Kultar Singh Sandhwan visited the hospital and inquired about the health of the injured.<\/p>\n
(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)<\/i><\/p>\n
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