Bengaluru: Five passengers, including three children, were charred to death and many others sustained burns when a Bengaluru bound bus they were travelling in caught fire on a national highway in Chitradurga district of Karnataka today morning.
According to the police, five people have died after a bus caught fire on National Highway 4 at about 3.30 am. The bus was on the way from Bijapur to Bengaluru.
Meanwhile, sixteen people have died and four are still missing in Karnataka due to the floods and landslides in various parts of the state.
According to the State government official data, 12 districts have been affected by the torrential rain. In 16 deaths, four each have been reported from Chikkamagaluru and Dakshina Kannada districts. Kodagu has reported two deaths while Dharwad, Hassan, Uttara Kannada, Mysuru, Haveri, and Udupi have one each.