A bus carrying the Indian Women's Kabbadi team today met with an accident that claimed lives of the bus driver and a head constable. Several players were also injured. The bus and the pilot car carrying the players and coach of the Indian team directly clashed into an army canter on Bathind-Chandigarh highway near the Bathinda cantonment.
The team was on the way to village Badal in Muktsar district from Ludhiana where deputy CM Punjab Sukhbir Singh Bandal was to host a dinner party in the honour of players of all the teams participating in the Kabbadi World Cup being held in Punjab. The Indian team also had to play the semi-final matches of the WKC that was scheduled to be held in Bathinda on Friday.
According to the information, the pilot cars which was escorting the players was speeding and collided with an army truck coming from the opposite direction. It made the player's bus hit the pilot car from behind which was sandwiched between the bus and the army truck. It claimed the life of the head constable Harjeet Singh who was driving the pilot car.
The tyres of the bus started to blast one by one causing the bus to catch fire immediately. The fire was dangerous enough to burn the bus driver Varinder Sharma, who died on the spot. Players somehow managed to escape by breaking the glass of the air-conditioned bus. All players suffer from burns and other injuries and is being admitted to the nearby Adesh Medical College.
News reported by AR for Newsvision
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