Five persons including a NRI couple were killed and 15 injured when a Delhi-bound luxury bus from Dharamsala collided with a car here today.
Three occupants of the ill-fated car were badly charred as the vehicle caught fire after the collision near a traffic signal in Chandigarh's Sector 45 here, Assistant Superintendent of Police (South) Urvija Goel said.
Three persons, two of whom hailed from Himachal Pradesh and one belonged to Rewari in Haryana, were travelling in the ill-fated car and they got trapped in the burning car after the accident.
The traffic signals were in a blinker mode at that time, Goel said.
Police said that a UK-based NRI couple Kavita and Rupesh, who hail from Himachal Pradesh, were also killed when the bus turned turtle after the collision.
The injured were rushed to a government hospital in Sector 32 here where the condition of a nine-year-old girl was said to be critical.
Goel said that a case under various Sections of the IPC has been registered against the driver of the Himachal Roadways bus, Surinder Singh.
Singh also got injuries and was admitted in the hospital, she added.
