Chandigarh, March 20 A 21-year-old woman, who was travelling home to Bareilly for Eid, was killed after a van caught fire when a bus allegedly collided with it in Samalkha, in Haryana's Panipat district, police said on Friday.
The accident occurred on the GT Road on Thursday night when the impact caused the van to move several meters, leading to it catching fire, they said.
Samalkha SHO Gulshan explained that an SUV collided with a vehicle that had already broken down on the road. The van driver allegedly lost control of the vehicle while trying to avoid hitting the two vehicles, resulting in injuries to three people inside, he said.
As the van driver prepared to take the injured individuals to a nearby hospital, a bus coming from behind collided with it. The impact caused the van to move nearly 30 meters before it caught fire, the SHO said.
While the driver and two passengers managed to escape, the woman was unable to get out because her leg was trapped in a seat when the vehicle caught fire, he added.