9 charred to death as bus catches fire after collision with lorry in Karnataka

At least nine people were charred to death after a private sleeper bus caught fire following a collision with a container lorry in Karnataka’s Chitradurga district on Thursday.

The bus was travelling from Bengaluru to Gokarna when it was hit head-on by a container lorry and immediately went up in flames, police said.

Chitradurga Police said they suspect the lorry driver may have fallen asleep at the wheel. “The container lorry jumped over the divider and hit the bus. The lorry driver is dead. There were 32 people on the bus. We have 21 people injured in hospital, and we are looking for more people, the police said.