RAJKOT: At least four passengers were charred to death and 10 others sustained burn injuries after a private luxury bus caught fire following a collision with a tanker in Gujarat’s Surendranagar district in the early hours of Thursday, officials said. The accident took place around 1.30 am near Sangani village on the Chotila-Rajkot National Highway, deputy superintendent of police SS Bhadoriya said, according to news agency PTI. The bus was travelling from Ahmedabad to Rajkot when it rammed into an asphalt-laden tanker moving ahead of it. Soon after the collision near Chotila, the bus caught fire, officials said. There were around 40 passengers onboard the bus, and several of them were rescued from the burning vehicle, Bhadoriya added.“Four passengers were burnt alive in the collision between the private bus and the tanker filled with asphalt,” deputy collector HT Makwana said. According to police, 10 people suffered injuries in the incident. The injured were shifted to Rajkot Civil Hospital for treatment, while the bodies of the deceased were sent to Chotila Referral Hospital for postmortem, Makwana said. Firefighters rushed to the spot after receiving information about the incident and managed to bring the blaze under control.
