20 killed in road mishap in eastern India

More than 20 people have been killed in one of the worst road accidents in eastern India early Wednesday morning.

Police said all the victims, members of a marriage party were returning to West Bengal when their bus dashed against a road side tree in Dhanbad district in Jharkhand state.

“So far 21 bodies have been recovered but this figure may go up”, a local senior police official Sanjay Ranjan said today.

Past week, at least 30 members of a wedding party had been killed in central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh when their bus hit a high tension overhead live wire.