Exclusive | Bike skidded, rider died on spot before bus ran over it in Kurnool tragedy: Pillion rider tells police

The bus that caught fire after coming into contact with a motorcycle in the early hours of Friday in Andhra Pradesh’s Kurnool purportedly did not collide with a moving bike, but ran over one that had already met with an accident, the pillion rider on the bike told police.

A rupture in the fuel tank after the Hyderabad - Bengaluru V-Kaveri Travels bus went over the bike caused a fire in which 19 passengers died. The man who was driving the bike, Kurnool resident B Siva Shankar (24), also died, but according to what the pillion rider told police, Siva likely died before the bus approached as he had fallen when the bike skidded on the wet highway that rainy night.

Kurnool Superintendent of Police Vikrant Patil told The Indian Express that police questioned Shankar’s friend, who was ri