According to an official, a pilgrim died and several others were injured after a tourist bus collided with a vehicle in Bihar’s Kaimur district on Friday morning.
The deceased has been identified as Paali (45), a resident of Odisha’s Sonpur district.
According to Umesh Chandra Choubey, National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), “All the passengers in the tourist bus hailed from Odisha. The incident took place around 3:00 am today when the pilgrims onboard the bus were on their way to Varanasi after doing the Pind Daan in Gaya.”
“As soon as the tourist bus reached near Pachahganj located on NH-2 of Kudra police station area in Kaimur, the bus tried to overtake and collided with an unknown vehicle, leading to the incident. A female tourist died while dozens of others were injured,” said the NHAI official.