BH-ACCIDENT

Two

persons were killed and 34 others injured after a tourist bus

carrying them collided head-on with a truck in Bihar's

Muzaffarpur district on Saturday, police said.

The incident happened on the Sitamarhi-Muzaffarpur

road (NH-77) near Bhanaspatti village under the jurisdiction

of Runnisaidpur police station, when the bus was travelling

from Uttarakhand to Gaya via Muzaffarpur, the police said.

The passengers had offered prayers at Janki temple in

Sitamarhi, the Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) of

Sitamarhi Sadar, Kumar Veer Dhirendra, said.

All the passengers had come from Uttarakhand, the DSP

said.

All the 34 injured were taken to Sri Krishna

Medical College and Hospital (SKMCH) in Muzaffarpur, the

District Magistrate (DM) of Muzaffarpur, Mohammad Sohail,

said.

While 19 persons were admitted to the hospital, 15

others were being treated at the hospital's out patient

department (OPD), the DM said.

One among the 19 admitted was shifted to the ICU of

the hospital, he said.

The driver of the bus and a woman died in the

accident, the DM said.

The woman has been as Rukmini Devi, he added.

The collision was so massive that the front portions

of both the bus and the truck have been badly damaged, a

police officer said.