Bus-Van collide in Gulbarga - 15 dead

Mangalore Today News Network

Gulbarga, June 02, 2014: In a collision at Aland about 40 Km from Gulbarga around 5 am on June 2, on a highway; a pick-up van and a KSRTC bus collided head-on at high speed and fell in to a roadside ditch, Gulbarga superintendent of police Amit Singh informs. At least 15 people, including three children, were killed and a dozen injured it is estimated for the present.

The injured were the driver and six passengers of the bus, which was coming from Koppal to Aland in the northern region of the state.  "We have registered a case against the bus and van drivers and set up a team to investigate the incident" the SP  said.

He also mentioned, "The victims, are from joint families on way to visit the Sufi shrine (dargah) of Khwaja Bande Nawaz on the city’s outskirts".  Most of the victims were from the van, which was going to Gulbarga from Akkalgud in Sholapur district of Maharashtra across the border. Five of the injured were admitted to the district hospital at Gulbarga and seven in a state-run general hospital at Aland.