Four dead, fourteen injured as bus overturns in Punjab

Nawanshahr October 5: Four people, including a student, were killed and 17 others injured when a bus overturned in Punjab's Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar district on Monday, police said.

The bus was travelling from Manali to Amritsar when the accident took place. A police official said the driver apparently lost control of the vehicle.

Around 40 passengers were on board, and several of them were students, said Pargat Singh, Station House Officer (SHO) of Sadar Banga police station.

"Four people, including a student of a private university, were killed in the accident and 17 others are injured," the SHO said. Two to three of the injured have been referred to a hospital in Ludhiana, he added.