7 Dead, 42 Hurt As Best Bus Crashes Into Vehicles

Mumbai: Seven persons died and 42 others were injured after a bus of the Mumbai's civic transport body Best rammed into pedestrians as well as vehicles on Monday night, police and municipal corpora-tion officials said.

It is suspected the accident near the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) L Ward in Kurla took place due to a brake failure, they said, adding the bus driver has been detained. Ac-cording to the officials, the driver of the BEST bus on route number 332 lost control over the wheel and dashed into pedestrians as well as some vehicles.

The Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (Best) undertaking's bus, after ploughing through pedestrians and vehicles, entered into a residential society, Buddha Colony, and came to a halt, they said. Three persons were brought dead from the crash site to nearby Bhabha Hospital, where 22 injured, including a teen girl, were undergoing treatment.Some of the injured were said to be in a critical condition. Multiple vehicles were damaged in the accident. The bus bearing registration number MH01-EM-8228 was going from Kurla railway station to Andheri.