Forty-five passengers were charred to death as a private luxury bus burst into flames after its fuel tank caught fire in Mahbubnagar district of Andhra Pradesh early on Wednesday - ANI photo via Twitter <b>Warning: The following pictures could be</b>
Police fill in details of passengers from relatives who rushed to the office of bus operator. Police said they had collected the list of passengers from the private bus operators and found that the online booking list had names of 33 bus-passengers
Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee President Botsa Satyanarayana talks to the media with regard to the accident, at RTA office in Hyderabad on Wednesday.
Andhra Pradesh Congress President Botsa Satyanarayana speaks to the media at the site of the bus fire accident. AP ministers D.K. Aruna, K. Jana Reddy and Union Minister Chiranjeevi are also seen.
Policemen standing guard to the dead bodies of the victims killed in the bus fire incident on Wednesday. AP
Another survivor of the bus fire incident undergoing treatment at the hospital.
Survivors of the gruesome accident undergoing treatment at the Apollo Hospital. According to the cleaner of the bus, most of the passengers were sleeping when the accident took place. The cleaner said he was pulled out of the burning bus by the
Cops remove the charred bodies from the Volvo bus. —DC
Family photo of a Hyderabadi family-of-three who were killed in the bus fire incident on Wednesday.
Relatives mourn the demise of their kin in the bus fire accident.
The bodies have been burnt beyond recognition and it is difficult to ascertain how many of the dead are men or women, officials said.
Picture shows another relative of victims outside the bus operator's office in Hyderabad. Initial reports had said that some software engineers were among the victims.
The remains of the burnt bus. - DC
A relative of a passenger wails outside the office of private bus operator, Jabbar Travels in Hyderabad after the accident.
People crowd around the bus that caught fire.
Picture shows the culvert on which the ill-fated bus hit before bursting up in flames.
Another picture from the inside of the bus. Fifty-two persons, including 50 passengers, were travelling in the Volvo bus when the mishap occurred.
Anusha, who lost her mother and uncle in the bus tragedy, in a state of shock, on receiving the news in Bengaluru — Satish B.
Officials dousing the fire. The entire bus was engulfed in flames in a matter of minutes.
Forensic officials inspecting the bus. The accident occurred at 5.10 AM when the diesel tank of the Hyderabad-bound bus owned by Jabbar Travels from Bengaluru hit against a culvert near Palem in Mahabubnagar, around 140 kms from Hyderabad on NH-44 (
Rescue team take out a charred body out of the ill-fated Volvo bus. "Charred bodies of 45 persons have been retrieved from the bus," Deputy Inspector General (Hyderabad Range) V. Naveen Chand told PTI.
Five passengers, the driver and the cleaner, managed to escape with burn injuries and were undergoing treatment at different hospitals, police sources said. Picture shows the burning bus caught on a mobile camera.
Cell phone snaps of the bus fire at Mahboobnagar.
Andhra Pradesh bus mishap: A sad and horrifying end