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An out-of-control motortruck rammed into a car, deed a autobus and crashed into a span successful Katni, Madhya Pradesh, connected Sunday (June 14, 2026), leaving 3 passengers successful the autobus dormant and 29 injured, constabulary said.
The mishap occurred adjacent the Industrial Area span nether the Kuthla constabulary presumption limits, erstwhile the bus, carrying astir 35 passengers, was travelling from Katni to Vijayraghavgarh Kymore, portion the motortruck was coming from the other direction, Superintendent of Police Abhinav Vishwakarma told PTI implicit the phone.
Preliminary probe suggested that the motortruck operator mislaid power of the instrumentality owed to a brake failure, helium said.
The collision interaction caused the autobus to overturn, leaving respective passengers trapped. A crane was utilized to assistance the autobus and rescue the passengers successful an cognition that lasted much than 35 minutes, helium added.
Locals joined constabulary unit and administrative officials successful rescue operations.
The deceased passengers were identified arsenic Kishan Kol (30), Neelam Prajapati, and Raju Choudhary, constabulary said.
A girl, who sustained superior injuries, had been shifted to the authorities aesculapian assemblage and infirmary successful Jabalpur divisional headquarters, portion others were being treated successful the territory hospital, said Mr. Vishwakarma.
The motortruck operator was besides injured.
Eyewitnesses said the collision triggered panic, trapping passengers wrong and beneath the overturned bus. One idiosyncratic was trapped wrong the truck's cabin.
The mishap disrupted postulation connected the Katni-Vijayraghavgarh Road for astir an hr earlier being restored, constabulary said.
