Haryana Bus Fire: Bus full of devotees burnt to ashes in Nuh, nine people killed; More than 20 people injured:Eight people were burnt alive when a moving bus caught fire near village Dhulawat in Nuh district on Kundli-Manesar-Palwal Expressway. They died on the spot. One died in the hospital. More than twenty out of the sixty people travelling in the bus were badly burnt. This included many children and women as well. The accident happened at around quarter to two in the night.

Tawadu. Eight people were burnt alive when a moving bus caught fire near village Dhulawat in Nuh district on Kundli-Manesar-Palwal Expressway. They died on the spot, while one died in the hospital. More than twenty out of about sixty people travelling in the bus were badly burnt. This included many children and women as well.

The accident happened at around 1:45 in the night. The people in the bus were from Hoshiarpur in Punjab and Chandigarh. They had booked a tourist company's bus for seven days and had set out to visit religious places. The accident happened while they were going to Chandigarh from Mathura and Vrindavan.

The bike rider came as an angel

Saroj Punj and Poonam, who were injured in the accident, said that between 1.30 and 2 a.m., as soon as the bus reached the border of Dhulawat village on KMP, a young man on a bike stopped the bus by putting his bike in front of it and told that the rear portion of the bus was on fire.

Seeing the flames of fire, the villagers also reached the spot. They broke the glass of the bus and took out the devotees. As soon as the bus stopped, the fire engulfed the entire bus. Some people were taken out by breaking the gate and some glass. People from the nearby village also helped. Eight people sitting in the back could not get out of the bus and were burnt alive.

Upon receiving the information, City Police Station Incharge Pradeep Kumar, Sadar Police Station Incharge Jitendra, DSP Mukesh Kumar and Superintendent of Police Narendra Bijarnia also reached the spot, where they called ambulances and sent the injured to different hospitals for treatment.

Eight bodies were kept in the mortuary of Nalhar Medical College. Four fire brigade vehicles reached the spot but by then the fire had been extinguished.