{"id":318750,"date":"2020-01-11T04:13:36","date_gmt":"2020-01-11T04:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=318750"},"modified":"2020-01-11T04:13:36","modified_gmt":"2020-01-11T04:13:36","slug":"pm-modi-expresses-grief-as-20-people-killed-in-kannauj-bus-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/pm-modi-expresses-grief-as-20-people-killed-in-kannauj-bus-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Modi expresses grief as 20 people killed in Kannauj bus accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-309370 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/PM-Modi-......jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"669\" height=\"526\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/PM-Modi-......jpg 669w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/PM-Modi-.....-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/PM-Modi-.....-534x420.jpg 534w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 669px) 100vw, 669px\" \/>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday send his condolences to the families of people who were killed after a bus burst into flames as it collided with a truck in Kannauj, Uttar Pradesh.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;It is very sad to know about the horrific road accident in Uttar Pradesh&#8217;s Kannauj. Numerous people have lost their lives in the accident. I express my condolences to the bereaved families and wish speedy recovery to the injured people,&#8221; PM Modi tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">At least 20 people were killed in a massive fire that broke out on Friday night following a collision between a private sleeper bus and a truck near Chiloi village.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to police, there were around 45 passengers in the bus at the time of incident.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The bus was on its way to Jaipur from Farrukhabad, reports said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Police said a DNA test will be conducted to determine the passengers\u2019 identities and the exact death toll. \u201cThe bodies are badly burned, their bones are scattered, so only a DNA test will determine the death toll,\u201d said Mohit Agarwal, IG Kanpur range.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath also expressed his condolence and announced Rs 2 lakh as compensation to the next of kin of those who lost their lives and Rs 50,000 to injured.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday send his condolences to the families of people who were killed after a bus burst into flames as it collided with a truck in Kannauj, Uttar Pradesh. &#8220;It is very sad to know about the horrific road accident in Uttar Pradesh&#8217;s Kannauj. Numerous people have lost their lives in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":309370,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,2014,2015],"tags":[11231,316,283],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318750"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318751,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318750\/revisions\/318751"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/309370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}