PK Mandal & DJ Venkatesh
Mayabunder, Jan 05: The New Bus of Anand, which ferries passengers between Port Blair and Diglipur, met with an accident this morning at Basantipur, Middle Andaman. The bus went off the road with passengers and missed a huge tree narrowly.
According to details the accident took place when the steering of the new bus failed at around 9.00 am when the bus had reached near the house of Adhir Mandal of Basantipur, Middle Andaman. The bus was was coming from Hati-Level area of Diglipur towards Port Blair.
Luckily no passengers were injured. Later most of the passengers were adjusted in SS Transport Bus which was coming towards Port Blair from Diglipur while some passengers who were scared to travel again came back to Diglipur via local buses. There were about 40 passengers, when the accident occurred.
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