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19 devotees hurt in bus-truck collision

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Press Trust of India Jhabua (MP)
Atleast 19 devotees from Gujarat on their way to Simhastha-Kumbh Mela underway in Ujjain were today injured, three of them seriously, when the bus carrying them collided with a truck in Patharpada village near here.

The ill-fated tourist bus from Vadodara in Gujarat was heading for Kumbh via Badhnawar area when a truck-laden with soyabean oil cans coming from Petlawad area here collided head-on, District Superintendent of Police Sanjay Tiwari said.

He said the three seriously injured have been admitted to a hospital at Dahod in Gujarat.

A case has been registered and a probe is on.

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First Published: May 20 2016 | 4:07 PM IST

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