The toll in Friday’s bus accident in Gujarat rose to 42, as five more bodies were pulled out from the wreckage yesterday. Chief Minister Anandiben Patel paid a visit to the injured people in hospitals and families of the dead and offered help from the state government.
The government has declared a compensation of Rs400,000 each to the relatives of those killed. The bus from Navsari to Ukai, carrying more than 60 passengers, fell into the Purna river some 40ft below, after breaking the sidewalls of a bridge on the Navsari-Bardoli highway on Friday evening.
The driver and conductor of the bus were among those killed.
Many schools and colleges in Navsari town remained closed for the day after paying condolences to the students killed in the accident.
Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel speaks to a doctor as she visits a woman in a hospital who was injured after a Gujarat State Road Transport Corporation (GSRTC) bus fell off from a river bridge in South Gujarat’s Navsari district, in Ahmedabad yesterday.
