40 injured as bus overturns

At least 40 persons were injured, some of them seriously, when a bus overturned and dashed against a private car on Diamond Harbour Road at Khidderpore tonight, police said

The injured, including three occupants of the car, were admitted to state-run SSKM Hospital and a local nursing home, police said.

Local people set up a road blockade in protest against police "negligence" to regulate road traffic in the area.

The bus was coming from Howrah to Akra in South 24 Parganas district in the south-west fringes of the city.

Senior police offcers later persuaded the protestors to lift the blockade.