NEW DELHI, Dec 27 : President Droupadi Murmu expressed deepest condolences on Friday over the loss of lives in a bus accident in Punjab and prayed for a speedy recovery of those injured.
Eight people were killed and more than 20 injured on Friday, when a private bus crashed through the railing of a bridge and plunged into a drain a few feet below in Punjab’s Bathinda district, police said.
“I am deeply saddened by the news of the death of many people in a bus accident in Bathinda, Punjab. I express my deepest condolences to all the bereaved families and pray to God for a speedy recovery of all those injured in this accident,” Murmu said in a post in Hindi on X. (PTI)