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Update: 2016-05-05 03:58:35
16 killed in bus accident in Raipur

DHAKA: Some 16 people were killed and 56 others injured in a bus accident in Chhattisgarh's Balrampur district of India on Wednesday night.

Police said the bus fell off a small bridge into a dry rivulet in Chhattisgarh's Times Of India reports on Thursday (May 5).

The private luxury bus was on its way to Raipur from Gadhwa of the neighbouring Jharkhand state when the accident took place at Daldhowa ghat around 10.30 pm, about 400 km from here.

Around 5 kms away from Balrampur district headquarter, the bus driver suddenly spotted a motorcycle at a sharp curve at Daldhowa and while trying to save him, lost control over the steering following which the vehicle skidded into the dry rivulet and overturned two to three times, Balrampur superintendent of police Sadanand Kumar said.

BDST: 1351 HRS, May 5, 2016
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