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Officers deployed successful Kurnool district's Fire Control Room received a occurrence telephone astir 3 a.m. connected the fire incidental successful Bengaluru-bound backstage travels bus connected Friday (October 24, 2025).
“The mishap occurred owed to overspeed and whitethorn beryllium negligence of the driver. The autobus went up successful flames adjacent Ullandakonda village, 18 kilometres distant from Kurnool. In all, 43 persons were successful the ill-fated bus,” said the in-charge Director-General, A.P. State Disaster Response and Fire Services, P. Venkata Ramana.
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“Fire unit reached the spot wrong a fewer minutes. By the clip the occurrence unit reached the spot, the conveyance was engulfed successful flames and nary screams were heard from the bus,” the Fire Services D-G told The Hindu.
Passengers trapped successful the autobus died connected the spot successful the fire. The firemen, on with the locals and others, shifted the injured to the adjacent hospitals and enactment disconnected the flames.
“In all, charred remains of 19 passengers were retrieved from the burnt bus. A elaborate probe into the mishap is on,” Mr. Venkata Ramana, who rushed to the spot said.
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According to the preliminary report, the mishap occurred owed to implicit speed, mediocre visibility and substance leakage aft the autobus deed a bike, which rammed underneath the sleeper coach, the Fire Services D-G said.
The motorcycle had deed the autobus from the beforehand and was dragged underneath. A portion of the motorcycle mightiness had deed the substance vessel and led to a leakage of fuel. This combined with the occurrence generated retired of friction aft the collision,might person led to the fire, said the occurrence officials.
