A person died and 20 others were injured as a bus collided with another one on the Puri-Konark marine drive road on Thursday. While the deceased was a bus driver, the injured were from both the buses.
Police, NDRF and fire brigade personnel after rescuing the injured passengers from the ill-fated buses sent them to hospitals. Police seized both the buses and a probe was on regarding the cause of the mishap. Both vehicles suffered severe damages.
Sources said that at about 10 am, a Puri-bound passenger bus while crossing the passage near the Eco-Retreat zone on the Marine Drive road lost control and dashed with a tourist bus from its backside. The tourist bus was parked by the road near a spot situated between Chandrabhaga and Ramachandi temple square.
It is learnt from sources that due to parking of buses, cars and bikes of visitors, the passage near Eco-treat zone was narrow. On the auspicious occasion of Saraswati Puja holiday, there was a massive turnout of visitors and tourists on Eco Retreat centre as the road was busy with vehicular traffick.
