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India Bus Accident Kills 40
A bus filled with vacationers collided with a car, flipped over and caught fire in southern India, killing at least 40 people, news reports said Sunday(March 11).
The bus was returning from a Hindu festival in Guruvayur city when the accident took place Saturday in Malapuram district in the southern state of Kerala, 1,100 miles south of New Delhi, the Press Trust of India news agency reported.
Only five people managed to escape the fire, which started when the fuel tank ignited after the collision. The other passengers were trapped inside the overturned bus, the agency quoted police as saying.
The charred bodies were taken to the hospital in nearby Calicut town, where efforts are under way to identify them, said Janardhan Nair, police chief of Malapuram.
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