Kurnool bus fire: At least 20 charred bodies have been recovered from the Kaveri Travels bus that caught fire in the wee hours of Friday. The vehicle, carrying 41 passengers from Hyderabad to Bengaluru , was engulfed in flames in Andhra Pradesh ’s Kurnool district.

Preliminary probe into the gut-wrenching incident suggests that the bus caught fire after a bike collided with the bus and became lodged under it. Following this, the fuel tank of the bus burst and caught fire, as per a report by TOI .

‘Main door was locked’

Survivors have now detailed the terrifying moments when the bus caught fire. “Around 2.30–2.40 am, the bus stopped and I woke up to see it had caught fire. Everyone on board was asleep,” a passenger told news agency ANI .

He added, “We woke them up and tried t

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