Andhra Pradesh Bus Fire

Six persons were charred to death and 20 others injured when a private bus caught fire after colliding with a tipper lorry in Andhra Pradesh's Palnadu district in the early hours of Wednesday.

Volvo has reiterated that the fire on board its bus in Mahbubnagar District in Andhra Pradesh on October 30 last year that killed 45 people was not the result of faulty vehicle design.

Bus manufacturer Volvo has found itself in a spot of bother with the Andhra Pradesh Police Crime Investigation Department (CID) citing the bus' faulty design as one of the major reasons for the bus fire tragedy which claimed 45 lives last year.

A week after the bus fire tragedy in Andhra Pradesh, a Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation bus, with 35 passengers, caught fire in Bangalore due to an engine snag but alert crew prevented a possible mishap.

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy on Friday announced that a committee of senior IAS officers, and also the Criminal Investigation Department of the state police, would probe Wednesday's bus mishap in Mahabubnagar district.

"All I am asking for is my son's body," it was as though the poignant scene from Anupam Kher's iconic Saaransh was coming alive at Hyderabad's Forensic Science Lab. In the film, the character played by Mr Kher breaks down before an official who asks for a bribe in exchange for the ashes of his son's body. In Hyderabad, grieving relatives were vexed...

A day after the tragic mishap in Mahabubnagar district of Andhra Pradesh, in which 45 passengers of a Volvo bus were burnt alive after it caught fire, police today arrested the owner of the bus operator company and its driver.

It was a little after 5 am when the bus headed to Hyderabad from Bangalore hit a barrier on the highway. The passengers on board were sleeping when the Volvo went up in flames, reportedly because the fuel tank exploded. 45 people were killed, many of them burnt alive. Among them were a baby and a seven-year-old girl.

It was a little after 5 am when the bus headed from Hyderabad to Bangalore hit a barrier on the highway. The passengers on board were sleeping when the Volvo went up in flames. 44 people were killed, many of them burnt alive.

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy today ordered a probe into the bus mishap in Mahabubnagar district which claimed 40 lives.

At least 44 people died when a bus headed from Bangalore to Hyderabad went up in flames early this morning.

Nearly 50 students of a private school in Hyderabad had a narrow escape today after the school bus in which they were travelling accidentally caught fire.

Three people were burnt alive and 30 others injured in a collision between a bus and a truck in Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh near the border with Karnataka late Friday, police said.

Six persons were charred to death and 20 others injured when a private bus caught fire after colliding with a tipper lorry in Andhra Pradesh's Palnadu district in the early hours of Wednesday.

Volvo has reiterated that the fire on board its bus in Mahbubnagar District in Andhra Pradesh on October 30 last year that killed 45 people was not the result of faulty vehicle design.

Bus manufacturer Volvo has found itself in a spot of bother with the Andhra Pradesh Police Crime Investigation Department (CID) citing the bus' faulty design as one of the major reasons for the bus fire tragedy which claimed 45 lives last year.

A week after the bus fire tragedy in Andhra Pradesh, a Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation bus, with 35 passengers, caught fire in Bangalore due to an engine snag but alert crew prevented a possible mishap.

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy on Friday announced that a committee of senior IAS officers, and also the Criminal Investigation Department of the state police, would probe Wednesday's bus mishap in Mahabubnagar district.

"All I am asking for is my son's body," it was as though the poignant scene from Anupam Kher's iconic Saaransh was coming alive at Hyderabad's Forensic Science Lab. In the film, the character played by Mr Kher breaks down before an official who asks for a bribe in exchange for the ashes of his son's body. In Hyderabad, grieving relatives were vexed...

A day after the tragic mishap in Mahabubnagar district of Andhra Pradesh, in which 45 passengers of a Volvo bus were burnt alive after it caught fire, police today arrested the owner of the bus operator company and its driver.

It was a little after 5 am when the bus headed to Hyderabad from Bangalore hit a barrier on the highway. The passengers on board were sleeping when the Volvo went up in flames, reportedly because the fuel tank exploded. 45 people were killed, many of them burnt alive. Among them were a baby and a seven-year-old girl.

It was a little after 5 am when the bus headed from Hyderabad to Bangalore hit a barrier on the highway. The passengers on board were sleeping when the Volvo went up in flames. 44 people were killed, many of them burnt alive.

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy today ordered a probe into the bus mishap in Mahabubnagar district which claimed 40 lives.

At least 44 people died when a bus headed from Bangalore to Hyderabad went up in flames early this morning.

Nearly 50 students of a private school in Hyderabad had a narrow escape today after the school bus in which they were travelling accidentally caught fire.

Three people were burnt alive and 30 others injured in a collision between a bus and a truck in Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh near the border with Karnataka late Friday, police said.