5 died, 10 injured in bus pile-up near Ambala

|HT|

Five people were killed and 10 injured when three buses rammed into each other in a pile-up on the Ambala-Chandigarh highway early on Monday. Police said three private tourist buses headed towards Delhi from Vaishno Devi shrine in Jammu and Kashmir’s Katra town rammed into each other, killing five travellers, including a 45-year-old woman, on the spot.

The injured were rushed to a nearby private hospital.

According to initial reports, the police said, the accident, which took place 15km from Ambala, is suspected to have taken place due to the sudden applying of brakes by the driver of the bus plying ahead.

A case was registered at Baldev Nagar police station. The bodies were shifted to the Ambala Civil Hospital mortuary.

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