Ten people were in the car. One of them, a 10-year-old boy named Virat, is the only one who came out alive.
The crash happened on Friday near Shantapura Cross in Surpur taluk, in Karnataka’s Yadgir district. Police said a car and a private bus collided head-on, and the car caught fire. Nine members of a single family died.
The dead are Krishna Nayak, 52, and his wife Anantha Kala, 45; Sharanappa, 36, and his wife Nisarga, 30; their children Siddhartha, 3, Advik, 5, and Srinidhi, 1.5; and Shashikala, 30, with her son Chandan, 8. Virat is Shashikala’s other son. Five children were among the ten travelling in the vehicle.
Superintendent of Police Pruthvik Shankar told PTI that the preliminary investigation and eyewitness accounts point to a tyre burst. The driver of the Compact Utility Vehicle reportedly lost control and ran into the bus. Four people in the car, two of them children, were burnt alive at the scene, the officer said.
The fire was fierce. Both the car and the bus were completely gutted, and fire and emergency crews had to put out the flames after arriving.
Everyone from the car was rushed to the Yadgiri Institute of Medical Sciences. Doctors there declared nine of them dead. Virat remains under treatment.
The family came from Sirwar taluk in Raichur district and was driving from Yadgir back toward home. The bus was on a run from Bengaluru to Kalaburagi. Its 20 passengers were pulled out in time, and all are reported safe, the SP said.
Police said the investigation is continuing.
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