 "Jharkhand: 18 dead, many injured as bus carrying pilgrims collide with truck transporting LPG cylinders. Image: News18")
At least 18 Kanwariyas were killed and several others injured in a tragic road accident early Tuesday morning(July 29) on the Godda-Deoghar road in Jharkhand’s Deoghar district.
The incident took place around 5:30 am near Jamunia More in the Mohanpur police station area, when a bus carrying pilgrims collided with a truck.
The bus was reportedly en route to a religious site where the pilgrims were to offer holy water. After being alerted by locals, Mohanpur SHO Priyaranjan Kumar and his team reached the spot and rushed the injured to a nearby hospital. The bodies of the deceased have been sent for post-mortem.
“In my Lok Sabha constituency of Deoghar, 18 devotees lost their lives in a tragic accident involving a bus and a truck during the Kanwar Yatra in the holy month of Shravan,” Godda MP Nishikant Dubey wrote in a post on X. “ May Baba Baidyanath give strength to their families to bear this grief.”