JAKARTA - At least 25 people were killed and others injured when a bus caught fire in western India on Saturday (1/7) morning local time, police said.

Officers said the incident occurred in the Buldana district of Maharashtra State when the bus was about to go to Pune.

"We have found 25 bodies. Eight others were injured," Buldana district police officer Baburao Mahamuni told Anadolu, quoted by Antara, Sunday.

He said the injured victims had been hospitalized.

Mahamuni said the investigation into the cause of the accident was still ongoing, but preliminary reports indicated that the bus hit the road divider and then caught fire.

"The bus fuel shell caught fire in the accident," he said, revealing.


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