9 killed, 12 injured in Amritsar bus-auto collision

Mangalore Today News Network

New Delhi, December 31, 2015: Nine people were killed and 12 others were severely injured in Punjab’s Amritsar district after a mini-bus rammed into the vehicle in which they were travelling, police said.

The incident took place on Wednesday night on Amritsar-Chowk Mehta road, around 250 km from Chandigarh. The victims include 5 women and a girl, police said.

The injured rushed to hospital.

Angry people from nearby villages set the mini-bus on fire even as its driver fled from the spot.

The victims were travelling on a ’gharuka’, a locally-made illegal vehicle, when the bus hit it.

Police said the ’gharuka’ was overloaded.