TIL Desk/National/Dhar/ At least 12 passengers were killed after their bus heading towards Maharashtra fell into the Narmada river in Madhya Pradesh’s Dhar district on Monday, a senior government official said. Madhya Pradesh Home Minister Narottam Mishra said 15 people were rescued.
Twelve people had boarded the bus in Indore, he told reporters in Bhopal. The bus, belonging to the Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation, was believed to be carrying 30 to 32 people, another official said. It broke the railing of a bridge on the National Highway No.3 (Agra-Mumbai road) near Khalghat, situated close to Dhar and Khargone borders, and then fell into the Narmada river, he said.
According to MSRTC officials, the bus left from MP’s Indore city around 7.30 am and was heading to Amalner in Maharashtra’s Jalgaon district, located about 260 km from Dhar. Twelve bodies have been retrieved from the bus, MP Home Department’s Additional Chief Secretary Dr Rajesh Rajora told. The National Disaster Response Force has rushed to the spot, he added.
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