Around 60 passengers were on board and were travelling from Sultanpur to Ajmer Sharif.
New Delhi: At least 25 pilgrims on Friday night are feared to have died as a bus collided with a stationary truck in Bahraich, Uttar Pradesh.
Around 60 passengers were on board and were travelling from Sultanpur to Ajmer Sharif.
Chief Development Officer of the district Sukhlal Bharti said 44 passengers of the 54-seater bus, that was carrying 60-70 people, were rescued.
Some pilgrims managed to get out of the bus, said the sources.
Over a dozen pilgrims were taken to hospital. Rescuers, using gas-cutters, were trying to cut open the twisted metal of the bus to pull out bodies or possible survivors from inside the vehicle.
With additional information from PTI:
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