A bus crashed and burst into flames killing at least 25 people in India's western state of Maharashtra in the early hours of Saturday, police and officials said. Madhya Pradesh | 24 people were injured after a bus travelling from Dindori district to Shahdol overturned in Anuppur today morning pic.twitter.com/Cm8pgj4qLh — ANI MP/CG/Rajasthan (@ANI_MP_CG_RJ) July 1, 2023"The majority of deaths were caused due to burning." Twenty-five people were killed and eight were injured, Maharashtra's deputy chief minister Devendra Fadnavis said in a post on Twitter. The state's Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Prime Minister Narendra Modi posted separate tweets expressing sorrow, and said they would pay support to each victim's family, amounting to 700,000 Indian rupees ($8,500). ($1 = 82.0910 Indian rupees)

Source: The Express Tribune July 01, 2023 17:48 UTC