5 dead, 35 injured after bus falls from bridge in Odisha’s Jajpur

Jajpur (Odisha): A minimum of 5 individuals, together with a girl, died and round 35 others had been injured after a bus fell from a bridge in Odisha’s Jajpur district on Monday night, police mentioned.

The incident befell round 9 pm on Barabati bridge on Nationwide Freeway-16, when the bus with about 47 passengers was en path to West Bengal from Puri, they mentioned.

“4 males and a girl have died within the accident. Round 40 individuals had been injured, and so they had been taken to Cuttack SCB Medical School,” mentioned Tapan Kumar Naik, Inspector in-Cost of Dharamshala Police Station.

The motive force misplaced management of the automobile, which resulted within the accident, police mentioned.

Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik expressed grief over the deaths and introduced an ex gratia of Rs 3 lakh every for the following of kin of the deceased.

In the meantime, Transport Commissioner Amitav Thakur mentioned the bus was sure for Haldia in West Bengal.

“We’ve got shaped a workforce of medical doctors for remedy. The injured, together with girls and youngsters, are being delivered to Cuttack with the assistance of 16 ambulances. The rescue operation has ended because the bus was lifted with a crane,” he mentioned.

Nikhil Pavan Kalyan, Collector and District Justice of the Peace of Jajpur, mentioned fuel cutters had been used to chop by way of the metallic and rescue the passengers from the bus.

SP Vinit Agrawal added that the deceased are but to be recognized and that many of the passengers hailed from West Bengal.