2 women killed, 5 people injured as bus overturns in Sonepat

Chandigarh, November 13

Two women were killed and five others injured on Wednesday when a bus overturned after trying to avert a collision with a truck in Haryana’s Sonepat district, police said.

The accident occurred in the early hours on the highway near Biswamil Chowk near Rai village in Sonepat, they said.

“The driver of the bus lost control over the vehicle when a truck appeared on the road near a turn. The bus overturned, leaving two women passengers, aged between 35 and 40, dead and five people injured,” a police official said.

He said the injured were hospitalised, including one with serious injuries, who was referred to the PGIMS hospital at Rohtak.

The official said a few other passengers sustained minor cuts or bruises and did not require any hospitalisation.

A passenger, who was travelling in the bus, told reporters in Sonepat that he was asleep when he suddenly felt a severe jolt.

“I heard people crying out loudly. The next thing I knew that it was a serious road accident,” he said. PTI