3 months ago
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A tourer autobus carrying 40 passengers was wholly gutted, adjacent Mundakayam, successful Kottayam successful the aboriginal hours of Tuesday.
The autobus was returning from a pilgrimage to Tamil Nadu aft departing from Kochi recently.
The autobus had near Madurai astatine 10.30 p.m. and had reached Mundakayam astir 3.30 a.m. erstwhile a tyre astatine the rear burst, causing a fire. The operator instantly stopped the conveyance and fume was seen rising from the bus. Passengers were rapidly evacuated and wrong minutes, the autobus was engulfed successful flames.
Fire and Rescue Services unit from Kanjirappally arrived astatine the country and extinguished the fire. The bus, however, was wholly destroyed. Most of the passengers were from Ernakulam and Kottayam districts. No injuries were reported. The stranded passengers were aboriginal accommodated successful different autobus to proceed their journey.
