Karnataka: Nine of family killed as car catches fire after crash

The car collided head-on with a bus. PIC/PTI

Nine members of a single family were killed after a car allegedly collided head-on with a private bus and caught fire in Surpur taluk on Friday, police said. The only survivor was a 10-year-old boy, they added.

Citing preliminary investigation and eyewitness accounts, SP Pruthvik Shankar said that the Compact Utility Vehicle (CUV) reportedly suffered a tyre burst, after which the driver lost control, leading to a head-on collision with a private bus. The CUV subsequently caught fire, resulting in the deaths of nine occupants.

A total of 10 people, five children among them, were travelling in the car at the time of the accident. Four occupants, two of them children, were burnt alive on the spot, he said.

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