Four died, 15 injured in Minibus accident.

Monday, August 14, 2006, 21:13 [IST]

Kolkata, Aug 14 (UNI) At least four passengers were killed on the spot and 15 injured, some of them seriously, when a Minibus in which they were travelling overturned at Karnapur in Hooghly district this evening.

Official sources here said the mishap occurred at around 19 hrs near Arambagh town, about 50 km from here, when the driver of the bus failed to control the vehicle while trying to save a cyclist coming from the opposite direction.

Soon local people gathered on the spot and rushed the injured to a nearby hospital before extracting the bodies from under the vehicle.

The police later seized the bus though the driver fled the scene under the cover of darkness.

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