Overview
- A bus that police say lost control drove into people watching a roadside orchestra for a Chhathi ceremony, killing five and injuring two.
- Two victims died at the scene and three more later died while receiving treatment at a government hospital.
- Officers say the driver briefly drove the bus away, then abandoned it and fled on foot; the vehicle has been taken into police custody.
- The programme drew a crowd onto the road, a factor officers cited as contributing to the scale of the casualties.
- Lauriya and Narkatiaganj police are leading the investigation but have not yet released victims’ identities or confirmed the cause of the bus losing control, and searches for the driver are ongoing.