{"id":67258,"date":"2025-02-18T14:18:34","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T14:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?p=67258"},"modified":"2025-02-18T14:18:34","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T14:18:34","slug":"5-killed-after-bus-carrying-36-passengers-falls-into-drain-in-punjab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?p=67258","title":{"rendered":"5 Killed After Bus Carrying 36 Passengers Falls Into Drain In Punjab"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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