6 killed, 12 injured as bus catches fire near Bangalore

Chitradurga: Six persons were charred to death and 12 others injured, five of them seriously, when a Bangalore-bound bus caught fire at Metikurke on Wednesday

Three critically injured passengers have been hospitalised at Davangere while two of them were admitted to a hospital, police said.

The bus was carrying about 30 passengers from Davangere when the tragedy struck in the early hours, they said.