Kolkata: Several injured as bus crashes into metro rail pillar
Kolkata/IBNS: An over speeding private bus crashed into a pillar of East-West Metro near Salt Lake Central Park area on Friday late evening, leaving several of its passengers injured.
According to reports, a Salt Lake to Howrah Station bound (route 215A) bus suddenly lost its control while allegedly trying to overtake another bus of the same route and hit the metro pillar near Central Park station.
Locals and police rushed to the scene and evacuated passengers from the bus.
Police said that multiple numbers of passengers have been taken to Bidhannagar hospital nearby.
Driver and conductor of the bus are absconding.
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