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☆ Buldhana: At least 25 dead after wedding party bus bursts into flames in India
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-01 | by ( Sandi Sidhu | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

Hong Kong CNN —At least 25 people have been killed after a bus carrying a wedding party burst into flames after crashing in India’s western state of Maharashtra on Saturday. Baburao Mahamuni, Deputy Superintendent of Police in Buldhana, said the incident had taken place on the Samruddhi Mahamarg expressway, CNN’s Indian affiliate News 18 reported. Mahamuni said the injured were being taken to Buldhana Civil Hospital. “Chief Minister Eknath Shinde has expressed deep grief over the horrific accident of a private bus on the Samruddhi highway near Sindkhedaraja in the Buldhana district,” the tweet read. It said the Chief Minister’s Relief Fund would provide around $6,000 to the families of each person killed “in this unfortunate incident”.

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☆ Eleven people die of sunstroke near Mumbai after open-air award function
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-17 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

MUMBAI, April 17 (Reuters) - At least eleven people died on Sunday after suffering from sunstroke at an event attended by India's home minister on the outskirts of Mumbai, the chief minister of Maharashtra state said. Hundreds of thousands of people attended an award function on Sunday afternoon where federal home minister Amit Shah presented an award to a well-known social activist, on the outskirts of the country's financial capital of Mumbai in Maharashtra. Around 50 people were admitted to hospital after the event and 11 had died, Maharashtra's chief minister, Eknath Shinde, told reporters late on Sunday night. India is likely to experience heat waves between March and May, the weather office said in February this year. Reporting by Shilpa Jamkhandikar and Rajendra Jadhav in Mumbai; Editing by Sonali PaulOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

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