Jamnagar-Junagadh luxury bus accident: 8 dead, 30 injured

Jamnagar-Junagadh luxury bus accident: 8 dead, 30 injured
By our correspondent
Jamnagar, DeshGujarat, 29 October, 2009


Jamnagar-Junagadh luxury bus accident: 8 dead, 30 injured


8 people were dead and at least 30 were injured after a luxury bus carrying 60 pilgrims to Junagadh for Girnar Parikrama trip turned turtle near Kalavad in Saurashtra on early Thursday morning.

A bus of Shiv Shakti Travels was from Jamnagar.

Several teams from Rajkot rushed to the spot for rescue work.

In another accident near Vadodara’s Vadu, four people died in a car accident on early Thursday morning.

Yesterday in another accident, at least 15 people were injured on Rajkot-Ahmedabad highway near Sayla. The Volvo bus of Mahasagar travels was on its way to Ahmedabad when the accident occurred.

Early this week another luxury bus has suddenly caught fire. No body was hurt in that accident.