Five bus passengers electrocuted in Palamau

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Press Trust of India Medininagar (Jharkhand)
Last Updated : Sep 28 2014 | 10:25 PM IST
Five passengers of a bus were killed and eight others injured when they came in contact with a live wire near Nawadih village in Palamau district today, police said.
"The victims were travelling in a bus and sitting atop it when they came in contact with the electric wire," Superintendent of Police Y S Ramesh said here.
The injured were admitted to a hospital and the conditions of three of them are serious, he added.
The bus was travelling from Bishrampur to Medininagar when the incident happened.
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First Published: Sep 28 2014 | 10:25 PM IST

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