Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (SP)

Bengaluru, Feb 12: After a motor bike, on which three youngsters were seated, hit a bus when trying to overtake a truck at Devagere Cross within the limits of Kaggalipura police station here, all the three of them were instantly burnt to death. The motor bike and the bus also were burnt down. The accident happened on Monday February 11.

The men, seated on a motor bike, where wheeling at the time. The deceased youngsters were Pradeep (26) form Uttarahalli, Harish (27) from Harinagara, Konanakunte here, and Basavalinge Gowda (26) from Anjanapura.

The bus that was moving towards Kaggalipura from the direction of Kumbalagodu and the motor bike coming from the opposite direction, on which the three young men were seated, collided head-on with each other at 3.40 pm on Monday when the wheeling bike tried to overtake a lorry. The friction which occurred during the collision caused the petrol tank of the motor bike to explode.  The vehicle caught fire, which soon spread to the bus.  Both the vehicles were charred in the accident. All the three bodies were thereafter found scattered around.

The bus driver, conductor, and passengers disembarked from the vehicle in time on sighting fire. Therefore they did not suffer any injuries or deaths.