Eight devotees were killed and dozens others injured after their bus caught fire on the Kundali-Manesar-Palwal Expressway in Haryana on Friday night, officials said. The devotees were returning from a pilgrimage to Mathura and Vrindavan in Uttar Pradesh when the fire broke out.
The bus was carrying over 60 people of a family, including women and children, all of whom were residents of Punjab.
Survivors said they noticed flames at the back of the bus at around 1.30 am on Saturday and tried to alert the driver.
Seeing the growing fire, a motorcycle rider followed the bus and warned the driver who stopped the bus. Locals tried to extinguish the fire and rescued people sitting in the front seats.
The cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained.
